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Gill Partington and Adam Smyth
Diagram of movements in Samuel Beckett’s play, Quad (1981).
Craig Dworkin
Pli Selon Pli:
Mallarmé and the Significance of the Fold
Detail from a diagram by Stéphane Mallarmé imagining the underlying structure in his unrealised book, Le Live.
Kelly Hoffer
‘The Gusseted Lady’: Shining Edges and Shapely Rifts
Detail of Stuart Gilbert’s 1930 diagram of the underlying structures in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Clara Drummond
‘A Morsel of Real Solid Joy’: A Short History of the Envelope
Detail of László Moholy-Nagy’s 1946 diagram of the underlying structure in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
Georgina Wilson
Folded Time: An Extra Hour(glass) in George Wither’s A Collection of Emblemes
Plot lines in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760).
Editorial essay
Kimsooja’s Bottari
Line drawing of all the objects on Daniel Spoerri’s desk from An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Atlas Press edition, 1995).
Hester Lees-Jeffries
Sharespeare, in Folds
Detail of the concrete poem ‘Il Pleut’ by Guillaume Apollinaire (1916).
Justine Provino
0, 1, 2 many folds
After writing If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller (1979), Italo Calvino worked up this diagram to illustrate the underlying structure of the book.
Riccardo Boglione
The Folding Poem (1928-2022)
List of the literary styles exhausted by Raymond Queneau in his Exercises in Style, taken from the first English edition (Gaberbocchus Press, 1959).
Sentence from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) in diagrammed form.
Aslak Gurholt & Fraser Muggeridge
Books with Folds
Diagram of the underlying structure to George Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual (1978)
Daniel Jackson
into and out of: rotations in hyperspace
