L'essence des choses

Ponge creates a cosmology from words. He snatches from the language its common purpose as a mere vehicle for prefabricated content and straightforward messages. His linguistic revolution breaks the linguistic structure into a freely proliferating network of meanings, bypassing the object, providing it with a multitude of approaches, and finally transforming it. This work tries to understand Francis Ponge’s approach to things. The typographical transcription seeks to emphasize the writer’s linguistic means and provide a new dimension to words. The author intends to bring things to life with a pointed choice of words is visualized; sounds, alliterations, and brave word combinations become visible.

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Publication, 2016. 235 × 320 mm,  112 pages. 

Typographic compositions and interpretation of ›Nature of Things‹, a collection of 32 short prose poems by French poet and essayist Francis Ponge.

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