a list of possible points of reference to the research outside the usual academic spectrum
w.Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
Jorgé Luis Borges: The Library of Babylon
www.bibliomysteries.com has some links of interest.
also…
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Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Library of Dreams is a pretty explicit homage to the ideal library in James Branch Cabell’s Beyond Life,
which thus deserves mention — will photocopy the relevant bits if you
don’t have the book. Then there’s poor old Lord Sepulchrave’s doomed
library in Titus Groan, and Borges’s exhaustive `Library of Babel’, and the booby-trapped library-cum-labyrinth in The Name of the Rose….Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Library of Dreams is a pretty explicit homage to the ideal library in James Branch Cabell’s Beyond Life,
which thus deserves mention — will photocopy the relevant bits if you
don’t have the book. Then there’s poor old Lord Sepulchrave’s doomed
library in Titus Groan, and Borges’s exhaustive `Library of Babel’, and the booby-trapped library-cum-labyrinth in The Name of the Rose….snip
Hello Andrew,
this is the first time I’ve commented here, though I’ve been reading you for a bit. Anyway. I don’t think I really understand what this entry is about, but it seems to be a list of books and things about imaginary libraries? something i’m interested in, too.
So maybe you’d be interested in these – though you probably know them already.
Ray Bradbury has written a lot about libraries, besides Fahrenheit 451.
A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter Miller
There is an excellent essay in a 1990s number of October by Dennis Hollier, called ‘The Death of Paper’, which discusses all manner of good stuff to do with destruction of libraries in and after wwii and the survival of book ‘content’ after the destruction of the physical container.
I’d better stop.
Laura