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Les voies du paradis by Peter Cornell

Contributed by Abyme on Apr 18th, 2024. Artwork published in
November 2023
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Les voies du paradis by Peter Cornell 1
Olivier Lebrun/After 8 Books. License: All Rights Reserved.

Les voies du paradis gathers what is left from a lost work: footnotes from a missing text, left by a researcher after his death and edited by Peter Cornell. These notes and their illustrations form an incomplete ensemble, which is to be read through its missing parts. A thread connects the diagrams – images of spirals and labyrinths – that run through and echo the text.

Originally published in Sweden in 1987 under the title Paradisets vägar, Les voies du paradis was republished in 2023 by After 8 Books in Paris. It was designed by Olivier Lebrun and set in Axo Narrow (Abyme, released 2024), Century Schoolbook Monospace and Claude Sans.

Les voies du paradis by Peter Cornell 2
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Les voies du paradis by Peter Cornell 3
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Les voies du paradis by Peter Cornell 4
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