Disque Pur

Disque Pur is the first book of French author Lucas Lejeune, written during his artistic residency at Castel Coucou, a contemporary art center situated in Forbach, France.

Disque Pur, described as the “intersection of science-fiction and Dante's Divine Comedy”, relates the journey of a (computer) demon through the various layers of a hard drive disk. Each digital file becomes a new character or a new story, always a new surprise; the ensemble is a dadaist epopee, mixing literature, computer code, haïkus, concrete poetry and dozens of playful writing constraints.

The book is entirely set in Fragen, whose shapes borrow from monospaced/typewriter typefaces as well as classic text ones, bridging the gap between the written and the more ASCII-like parts of the story.

Table of contents, set in Fragen Black and Thin Italic

Visual translation of the hard drive's successive layers

Text set in Fragen Regular

Chapter entries are treated like paths and folders, set in Fragen Black and Thin Italic. Text et in Fragen Regular

Example of a more cryptic/concrete kind of content, set in Fragen Regular and Thin Italic