Fictional Libraries and Other Essays
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Fictional Libraries and Other Essays
14.99 €
The new collection of essays by Spanish writer and critic Jorge Carrión (b. 1976) is dedicated to “a square whose vertices are publishing houses, bookstores, and private and public libraries.”
As in his debut, Bookstores, the author combines travel and cultural history into a single narrative to set off on a “pursuit of literary topographies.” He investigates the history of Villa Malaparte, strolls through London with writer Iain Sinclair, talks to Alberto Manguel, director of the National Library of Argentina, recalling his predecessor, Borges, debates new and used bookstores with essayist Luigi Amara, and gets caught up in the frantic pace of Miami.
A tireless explorer of the book territory, Carrión sensitively registers its changes: digitalization and the threat from marketplaces, new store formats, the new life of libraries, the renaissance of book spaces of experiences in South Korea and Japan. And, of course, once again he declares his love for books, bookstores and libraries - not only physical ones, but also fictional ones. Those that famous authors - Cervantes, Verne, Borges - gave us in their works, and those that exist inside each of us.
As in his debut, Bookstores, the author combines travel and cultural history into a single narrative to set off on a “pursuit of literary topographies.” He investigates the history of Villa Malaparte, strolls through London with writer Iain Sinclair, talks to Alberto Manguel, director of the National Library of Argentina, recalling his predecessor, Borges, debates new and used bookstores with essayist Luigi Amara, and gets caught up in the frantic pace of Miami.
A tireless explorer of the book territory, Carrión sensitively registers its changes: digitalization and the threat from marketplaces, new store formats, the new life of libraries, the renaissance of book spaces of experiences in South Korea and Japan. And, of course, once again he declares his love for books, bookstores and libraries - not only physical ones, but also fictional ones. Those that famous authors - Cervantes, Verne, Borges - gave us in their works, and those that exist inside each of us.
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