the anthology consists of seventeen original bilangual estonian-english literary and esseistic booklets by eighteen different authors, approaching from their own angle the endlessly variable motive of non-existent books. In its caleidoscopic framework the compendium reaches the borders of contemporary literary expression and poetic playgrounds
the compiler of the book, Kiwa, resumes in his foreword the earlier existing history of non-existent books and Aare Pilv directs his attention to the house-manuscript of Wittgenstein. Valdur Mikita performs the flight-expeditions on the ancient drones, accompanied by Marko Mäetamm. Triin Tamm potters with the language of dedications without books and andreas w investigates what would come if we would leave everything unwritten. Sven Vabar and c: undertake psychogeographical expeditions to investigate the ways of being of prufenics and the hierarchies of vertical apparitions. the mapper of periferies and tention-zones, Aune Ainson, focuses her magnifying class on flesh and Barthol Lo Mejor shows how slang turns the book into non-existent one. Kaarel Kurismaa searches for the soul-life of miniature machines, Kaspar Jassa leafs through unused literature, Jaak Tomberg postulates a person who misses a book and the icon of estonian progressive literature. the phd. in neurolinguistics, Erkki Luuk finally relieves what is uhvutiv klõps (vanishing click during taking a picture). the debutants released in the anthology are Celer Tambre, Salmo Salar and Gennadi S. Klein. Tambre views the non-existant body-imaginations and Salmo Salar notifies that everyday drama shouldn’t lack palindromes. Gennadi S. Klein shifts the basic parameters of psychosis
the anthology was also a part of the XVI international print triennial’s exhibition “literacy-Illiteracy” opened in february 2014 at kumu art museum of estonia, where Kiwa, the compiler of the book, was announced as one of the laureates of the Triennial for compiling and presenting The Anthology of Non-Existent Books