{Pre-order} Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne

[Pre-orders now open. Shipping in Q2 2025.]

We are excited to unveil Grant Us Eyes, a book-length close reading of Bloodborne by literary critic Nathan Wainstein (LA Review of Books, Cartridge Lit, American Book Review).

Grant Us Eyes situates the game's oft-discussed difficulty in relation to a much longer tradition of difficult art – surrealist painting, the modernist novel, etc. Wainstein probes the difficulty of Bloodborne's fragmented narrative, the difficulty of its graphical and aural glitches, the difficulty of the philosophical problems it poses, and the difficulty of performing close analysis itself within a medium that still doesn't have established, agreed-upon methods of interpretation in the way literature and film do.

Download the free sampler to read the Introduction and a later chapter.

Pre-order before November 30th, 2024 and receive the digital edition free of charge when it launches (€15 value).

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Product details:

• Dimensions: 7" x 10" | 18cm x 26cm
• Page count: 300+ pages (exact figure TBD)
• Bound in Italian design paper, over 3mm cover boards
• Cover artwork and 19 internal dropcap illustrations by artist Jaye Shepherd
  
• Set in Albertan type with Albertus as display
• Printed full-colour, plus metallic-gold Pantone ink on 120gsm Munken Lynx Rough 120gsm
  
• Head-and-tail bands: red
• Gold page-edge gilding (top edge only)
• Red cloth slipcase, blocked in gold foil with Healing Church design by Jaye Shepherd
• Printed endpapers featuring Gothic rood screen

[Note: Grant Us Eyes is not an official Bloodborne product and has not been authorized by FromSoftware or Sony Interactive Entertainment. “Bloodborne” is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment.]