"The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko. Limited Edition.

The Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll
illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko
Available here: www.lipchenko....
Format: Hardcover, dust-jacket
Published: 2011
Dimensions: 48 Pages, 8.22 x 11.67 x 0.5 IN
ISBN: 978-0-9783613-2-7
Published by Treasure Studio, Toronto, Canada
Printed in China
Limited Edition of 100 copies, each copy is numbered
Signed by illustrator Oleg Lipchenko
"...Lipchenko has much more success with this new version of The Hunting of the Snark, an anti-epic poem that shares DNA (as well as a few creatures and portmanteau words) with Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
In eight sections called “fits,” the verse tells the story of a voyage by nine men and a beaver to a mysterious land. They are there, ostensibly, to capture a Snark, which is never really defined other than as a creature that may have whiskers or feathers and (wisely) “always looks grave at a pun.”
The poem is more about inertia than adventure - the hunt doesn’t really begin until the tale is more than half over. Lipchenko responds to this lack of action by making his illustrations flow around the text like a dream. Or rather, a nightmare: as the party gets closer to its prey, the images darken forbiddingly, until we finally encounter the deadly Snark/Boojum/Bandersnatch, which looks like something H.R. Giger might’ve dreamed up in a whimsical mood.
Of all Carroll’s best-known works, The Hunting of the Snark, with its highly cerebral twists and literary puzzles, may be the least kid-friendly. In Lipchenko’s hands, that barely matters: kids will get sucked in by the visuals alone. Best of all, his images provide enough fodder to inspire a hundred alternate stories.”
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