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Información de la obraBurning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge por Richard Ovenden
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Opening with the notorious bonfires of ‘un-German’ and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased in frequency and intensity during the modern era. Libraries are far more than stores of literature, through preserving the legal documents such as Magna Carta and records of citizenship, they also support the rule of law and the rights of citizens. Today, the knowledge they hold on behalf of society is under attack as never before. In this fascinating book, he explores everything from what really happened to the Great Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers, from Donald Trump’s deleting embarrassing tweets to John Murray’s burning of Byron’s memoirs in the name of censorship. At once a powerful history of civilisation and a manifesto for the vital importance of physical libraries in our increasingly digital age, Burning the Books is also a very human story animated by an unlikely cast of adventurers, self-taught archaeologists, poets, freedom-fighters — and, of course, librarians and the heroic lengths they will go to preserve and rescue knowledge, ensuring that civilisation survives. From the rediscovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the desert, hidden from the Romans and lost for almost 2000 years to the medieval manuscript that inspired William Morris, the knowledge of the past still has so many valuable lessons to teach us and we ignore it at our peril.
In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In this book, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Richard Ovenden, director de la mundialmente conocida Bodleian Library de Oxford, nos cuenta que los ataques a bibliotecas han sido una constante histórica desde la antigüedad, pero han incrementado su frecuencia e intensidad en la Edad Moderna. Las bibliotecas son mucho más que almacenes de literatura; al conservar documentos legales como la Carta Magna o registros censales, también defienden la ley y los derechos de los ciudadanos. En este fascinante libro Ovenden traza un análisis completo, desde lo que realmente sucedió con la Biblioteca de Alejandría hasta los papeles de la generación Windrush, y desde Donald Trump borrando tweets vergonzosos hasta John Murray quemando las memorias de Lord Byron en nombre de la censura.
Esta obra es, a la vez, una gran historia de la civilización y un manifiesto sobre la vital importancia de las bibliotecas físicas en una era cada vez más digital, pero Quemar libros es también una historia humana a la que da vida un sorprendente reparto de aventureros, arqueólogos autodidactas, poetas, activistas… y, por supuesto, los bibliotecarios y el heroico camino que recorren para conservar y rescatar el conocimiento y garantizar así la supervivencia de la civilización.