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 Eyessituates 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.]
