A selection of book jackets by the acclaimed artist and designer
Few contemporary book cover designers have given me more pleasure than Peter Mendelsund. Here are just a few examples of his work:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double and The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Patrick McGrath, Trauma
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