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Cargando... The Dark Library (edición 2020)por Cyrille Martinez (Autor), Joseph Patrick Stancil (Traductor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Cyrille Martinez has written a magical-weird realism song to, of course libraries themselves, books, books as objects, the written word, words, literature, and, to this reader, what is a creative work becomes. I can only compare it to Murakami but instead of lonely men, cats, jazz, and animal-men or men in animal suits we have books and weird librarians. The Dark Library is story from a writer confronting what reading and libraries and books mean as culture throttles forward unrelentingly into online culture. Once captured digitally and distributed online are books and the ideas and stories free? Once captured in this way what even is a library? Gratefully filled with more questions than answers The Dark Library is a mysterious engaging read. ( ) A satiric mediation on the fate of libraries in a world that has reduced the library to the information contained in the books. In short, the physical book, the tactile process of reading, cannot be distilled down to scanning words in digital formats. It's like comparing eating a meal at a fabulous restaurant, and looking at a picture of delicious dishes. This author knows the soft spots attacking the library, including, in many instances, the librarians themselves, and thus his critiques hit home with regularity. I did think the ending was a tad off, but even that offered the hopeful message that whatever the push to digitize everything, the physical library will spontaneously re-emerge because, in the end, it touches the soul in ways that mere reading of bloodless digital text cannot: While many live their lives acquiring books, even to the point of bibliomania, no one has ever, or will ever, collect digital files with similar hunger and satisfaction. Nor should they. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. A sort of Calvino/Manguel/Basbanes/Eco-esque mashup of a meditation on contemporary libraries and reading, partly narrated by some of the books. I loved the idea of it, and the writing is excellent, but somewhere along the way, things failed to come together and in the end I was left feeling that this quirky little book didn't manage to live up to its promise. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I loved the concept of this book. Books that seek out their own readers. Who doesn't want the perfect book to find them? I don't know that the idea translated as well as it might have. I found it was little hard to get into but I did finish and enjoyed the book. Thank you to LibraryThing for the copy. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. The Dark Library by Cyrille Martinez is a wonderful love letter to both the printed word and to readers. It tells it's story with whimsy and a touch of darkness. With it's tale of grand libraries, talking books and missing readers he lays out the world where books languish unread and readers becoming too involved with on line interactions to open a book. Told in an angry way this would have been a Angry Little Book to quote Martinez. But because his narrative is filled with humor and is at times surreal, it becomes instead a hopeful book and a paean to the enduring joy of reading. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Libraries are magical places. But what if they're even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez's library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He's tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops. Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary? The Dark Library is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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