Fictional Libraries and Other Essays
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A new collection of essays by Spanish writer and critic Jorge Carrión (b. 1976) focuses on "a square whose vertices are publishers, bookstores, private and public libraries." As in his debut Bookstores, the author combines travel and cultural history into a single narrative to embark on a "chase of literary topographies." He investigates the history of Villa Malaparte, walks through London with writer Ian Sinclair, talks with Alberto Mangel, director of the National Library of Argentina, recalling his predecessor Borges, engages in a polemic about new and second-hand bookstores with essayist Luigi Amara, and gets caught up in the frenzied pace of Miami life. A tireless explorer of book territory, Carrion sensitively records its changes: digitalization and the threat of marketplaces, new store formats, the new life of libraries, the renaissance of book experience spaces in South Korea and Japan. And, of course, once again professes its love for books, bookstores, and libraries - not just physical ones, but fictional ones as well. Those that famous authors - Cervantes, Verne, Borges - gave us in their works, and those that exist inside each of us.
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