The exile from Prague attempts an impossible synthesis: what is the novel, or rather what would it have been if Max Brod had respected Kafka's last wishes and left only a few of his works to posterity? And if the translators of novels were truly faithful to the original? These are questions for maniacs of the written word, thus questions that Enzo Mari - a maniac of the visual form of text in particular - will have asked himself countless times, making and rethinking his work as an artist and designer. Also in the latest of many fine exhibitions showing in Turin ("The Art of Design"), Mari is rightly celebrated as the initiator of the Italian trend for translating art into design.
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