The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Chris Van Allsburg.

32 pages, black and white; Paperback cover. Text in English. 23 x 27 cm. Andersen Press. 
Resuming the Renaissance tradition of the emblemata, Van Allsburg presents here loose and isolated images of a great mystery. Accompanied only by a title and a short sentence that could be from the quotation of a putative text, the work of imagination in constructing the universe to which these images, texts, characters and situations belong is all on the side of the reader-spectator. Plus, we have to be true detectives of literary speculation to unravel what's going on... but be careful, it's a trap! It will be very difficult not to open this book again, and again, and again...