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Jung's big, red Liber Novus is a meticulously stylized record of the author's transformation process at midlife. Its gorgeous re-presentation in the 2009 edition published by W.W. Norton, entitled The Red Book: Liber Novus, constitutes a landmark in Jung's published oeuvre, not only because for the first time since its inception nearly 100 years ago has Liber Novus now become available to scholars and to the public, but also because of the care and cost that went into this production. It is an extraordinary edition of an extraordinary literary and artistic work by an extraordinary man. Everything about this book is bigger than life.
The Red Book as it is now published in this sumptuous edition comprises much more than is contained in the work that Jung created and called Liber Novus. In The Red Book there is, first and most dramatic from a visual standpoint, the facsimile of Jung's Liber Novus itself (commonly referred to in the past as ‘the Red Book’), beautifully photographed and presented on heavy pages filled with colour paintings and covered with calligraphic script. Then there is the transcribed text in readable print (in the original German in the German edition, in an English translation by Mark Kyburz, John Peck and Sonu Shamdasani in the English edition) with detailed footnotes and an impressive scholarly apparatus by Sonu Shamdasani, the editor. This text includes not only the transcribed material from the Liber Novus's two sections, Liber Primus and Liber Secundus, but also a third piece called ‘Scrutinies’ in English (Prüfungen in German), which the editor chose to include as a sort of Liber Tertius. In addition, there are the editor's impressive introduction, his more than 1000 footnotes, the translators' comments, a preface by Ulrich Hoerni on behalf of the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung, and a couple of appendices containing further relevant material not in the Red Book itself or in the Scrutinies. The edito