“Dreamy Sales of Jung Book Stir Analysis” (har)
Absolutely fascinating NYTimes article about how a hefty, pricy (list price $195), luxuriously crafted (“the book is partly hand-bound, uses two different kinds of custom-made paper and is printed in Italy”) reproduction of Carl Jung’s illustrated, hand-written The Red Book has been selling astoundingly well. It’s sold out in many locations and has garnered three more printing runs, despite understandably low initial expectations for its success. The article is a rather heartening read, even if it’s not indicative of the book industry’s success in general. Also, the book looks gorgeous, needless to say.
Alas, though, for Carl Jung, because when I think of him now, the first thing that comes to mind is his appearance as Tiny Carl Jung in the hilarious, bizarre nerdfest of a webcomic that is Dresden Codak.
I hope everyone is having a happy holiday!
– E
I really hope they produce a cheaper version. (Maybe a manga…)
A Jungian manga would explode my head in a really, really good way. I feel like manga have some kind of license to showcase more unbridled, unexplained weird than most media.