Did you know that in 1913, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an Indian author, Rabindranath Tagore; that The Little Prince exists in almost 400 languages; that worldwide sales of the manga One Piece have now surpassed those of Asterix; that in H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, the story begins in the year 802 701; that Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is considered the first detective story in history?This is what you’ll discover when you immerse yourself in this magnificent and abundant infographic. In just over a hundred pages, this book offers a new graphic style that’s as rich as it is playful. Thanks to datavisualization, you’ll be immersed in the world of literature, discovering its history, its genres, its authors, its works and their circulation, as well as its readers.
Cartography of Balzac’s imaginary France, discovery of the Chinese classic La Pérégrination vers l’Ouest, panorama of African epics, study of the color and size of canonical novels, list of the world’s most widely-read women writers, presentation of the players in the book chain, analysis of the amount of time devoted to reading around the world, and much more. This book does more than simply provide graphic representations of literary history and genres. It offers an original, offbeat approach to books and literature.
Thanks to the collaboration of a literary historian and theorist, Alexandre Gefen, and an outstanding graphic designer, Guillemette Crozet, La littérature. A Data Visualization outlines the challenges facing this major art form.
