Editorial Random House
Fecha de edición marzo 2023 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780593536278
496 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa dura
Dimensiones 125 mm x 191 mm
The characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink-stained medieval monks in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose to the book-besotted denizens of Ali Smith's Public Library and Other Stories. In these pages readers are invited to enter the interior lives of librarians in Lorrie Moore's Community Life and Elizabeth McCracken's "Juliet" and are ushered into a host of unusual libraries, including the infinite rooms of Jorge Luis Borges's The Library of Babel and a secret library in Helen Oyeyemi's Books and Roses. Books exert their power in mysterious ways: an attempt by the military leaders of an imaginary nation to censor all of literature goes awry in Italo Calvino's A General in the Library and Julio Cortázar's mesmerizing The Continuity of Parks dramatizes the merging of the world inside and outside of a book. In Stories of Books and Libraries, a dazzling array of writers including Evelyn Waugh, Colette, Walter Benjamin, Isaac Babel, Teffi, and Ray Bradbury pay tribute to books and the magical places that house them.
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