BOOK DESIGN
Title Às vezes dá vontade de chorar feito criança (Sometimes You Want to Whimper Like a Child)
Author Heinrich Böll
Client Carambaia, 2023
Às vezes dá vontade de chorar feito criança – Os diários de guerra 1943–1945 (Sometimes You Want to Whimper Like a Child – The War Diaries 1943–1945) is a compilation of three diaries written by Heinrich Böll, a foot soldier in compulsory military service during World War II, and who would go on to become a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature and a committed pacifist.
Written directly from the war front and often in the midst of crossfire, the diaries are reproduced in their original size along with the corresponding translation directly below, historical and contextual annotations by the author’s son, smaller factual notes and corrections, simplified maps, personal photos and documents as well as a timeline on the right edge of the spread so that the reader can navigate through his journey in different ways.
The geometric all-type structure of the cover contrasts with the endpapers that are blow-ups of Böll’s hand-writing, particularly of entries in which he fervently writes the name of his wife Anne-Marie with longing and despair.
Typefaces Agena Display, Ofelia Text, Tiempos Text, Elza
Print Production Lilia Góes
Photos Nino Andrés (stills)
