摘要：Vas, an Opera in Flatland (2002), is a book written and conceived by Steve Tomasula and visually composed as a collaborative project between the author and Steven Farrell, a graphic artist and typesetting professor. This is an engaging and polysemic narrative in which literature, visual art, design, specialized scientific and disciplinary knowledge converge giving rise to questions about the status, function, and the genesis of the literary object and the specific form of knowledge it generates, its relation with iconicity, the identity and adaptability of the novel as a form of art and a cognitive device in the post-biological, media-ubiquitous, and multiply coded environment we inhabit.
