“Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol by Nigel Tomm” is an exceptional book in numerous ways. Firstly, it is not actually Nigel Tomm’s book. This is not Dan Brown’s book either. It is “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (published in 1891) with a difference that the names of the main characters are interchanged with those from “The Lost Symbol”, i.e., Dorian Gray now is Robert Langdon, Lord Henry Wotton is Lord Peter Solomon and Basil Hallward is Zachary Solomon. The author of the book, Nigel Tomm calls it a textual installation art where such phenomenon as authorship, perception, cognition and law are being questioned. The book also questions the role of the author and its significance in the contemporary world of mashups. Can you imagine Robert Langdon in 1891? Nigel Tomm gives you a try.

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