About the cover:

Stiff brochure Shiny black goatskin is pulled diagonally across the spine up to one corner of each cover, the diagonals are supplemented with light grey, shiny smooth leather. The decoration of the cover consists of ten narrow white leather strips running horizontally over the black leather, not parallel, which are carried out on the spine under the black leather, black author and title embossing on the grey triangular panels, white endpapers throughout, blocked edges, lined cassette with hinged cover and grey paper cover.

About the content:

Claude Simon: The Hair of Berenice

Translated from the French by Silvia Ronelt (no punctuation, only capitalised nouns) Residenz Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 1994 Claude Simon (1913-2005) is a representative of the French Nouveau Roman who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985. The novel was first published in 1966 in an art portfolio ‘Femmes’ together with illustrations by Mirò. As if in a series of snapshots, Simon describes events on the beach, the sea, the harbour, the desolate atmosphere of a brothel or fishermen sleeping next to their boats from varying distances and perspectives.

About the artist: Trained as a biological laboratory technician, Claudia Richter studied under Mechthild Lobisch in the bookbinding class “Konzeptkunst Buch” at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, where she subsequently worked as workshop supervisor. Soon after graduating, she opened her own “Studio for Book Art and Design” in Halle (Saale).

She developed her own style, which is strongly influenced by her training and blends geometric austerity with subtle poetry. Every binding is unique, a successful work of rare delicate elegance, a “homage” to beauty. This in perfect craftsmanship!