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The kings of CACKLE... The Codes of Dismal! 1940 Book Humour, Literature

The kings of CACKLE... The Codes of Dismal!

1940

Book

Humour, Literature

Book of aphorisms on personality. The clash between two states: laughter and wisdom in four acts: scorn versus the plague; derision versus hunger; irony versus war; humor versus death. The clash is sublimated by the typographical composition and the detailed finishes. The texts comprise “footnotes and counter-footnotes”, thus obliging the reader to turn the book as they read. This book is based on the essay-work, The Laughter, by Henri Bergson (1900). Each partition has four sub-chapters that are marked at the top (the laughter side) with different ink from the colour palette used for the top half of the cover: ultramarine blue, turquoise, white and yellow.

Author:
Paulo de Cantos

Year:
circa 1942-45

Publishing house:
Póvoa de Varzim

Print shop:
Tipografia Camões

Format (cm):
11,5 × 18,5

Materials:
Paper