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A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. With diligence and grace, Báez mounts a compelling investigation into the motives behind the destruction of books, reading man's violence against writing as a perverse anti-creation. His findings ultimately attest to the lasting power of books as the great human repository of knowledge and memory, fragile yet vital bulwarks against the intransigence and barbarity of every age.--From publisher description.… (meer)
This is an incredible book. I think it suffers a little from translation--passages and phrases sometimes feel both lovely and awkward at the same time. But the primary purpose of the book, to give a sense of the extent, political/social context and the great loss that's accompanied book destruction since the beginning of writing is tremendous. The major flaw is that there is no mention of sub-Saharan Africa, which seems a major omission. Still, this is a book I'm planning on buying, since I went back to read certain pieces many times. ( )
Más que historia es un listado contado con ganas de querer terminar.
Fernando Báez bien pudo detenerse con calma en un periodo, en lugar de querer abarcarlo todo y contarlo de prisa, dejando hechos por aquí y por allá sin mayor análisis.
Tenía grandes expectativas que no se cumplieron. Una lástima por lo que pudo haber sido este libro.
Lo rescatable: la Primera Parte y el Capítulo 11 de la Tercera parte. ( )
Medo, ódio, soberba, intolerância e sede de poder é o que sempre motivou os destruidores de livros, cuja intenção na verdade nunca foi destruir o objeto em si, mas o que este representava: o vínculo com a memória, o patrimônio de idéias de toda uma civilização. Este livro oferece uma visão aterradora da devastação, que se inicia no Mundo Antigo, passando pela Inquisição e pelos tempos das conquistas, até a catástrofe mais recente - a destruição de um milhão de livros no Iraque, como consequência de uma guerra absurda.
The book was interesting, but it was a bit tiresome and depressing at times. You are looking at humanity's history pretty much by the many books (and scrolls and manuscripts) that have been lost or destroyed from natural disasters to man's intentional destruction. It is written in short sections, which makes it easy to read, but the prose is a little on the dry side (which is why I gave it two stars; it just did not draw me in). If you are interested in books, it is worth a look, but it is a slow read. ( )
The cumulative impact of the author's catalog of book destruction has a numbing effect. Some describe the elimination of collections, and others all copies of a given title. The entries span the full span from the first accounts of lost manuscripts, to the recent obscene apathy shown by the United States during its invasion of Iraq.
As a work of scholarship, the details and stories are impressive. But the weight on the human spirit to see gathered in one place the malicious, thoughtless and unlucky losses in our human intellectual patrimony is crushing. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. - Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1821
Every book burned enlightens the world. - Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Essays: First Series, 1841
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
"Our memory no longer exists"
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In general, biblioclasts are well-educated people, cultured, sensitive, perfectionists, painstaking, with unusual intellectual gifts, depressive tendencies, incapable of tolerating criticism, egoists, mythomaniacs, members of the middle or upper classes, with minor traumas in their childhood or youth, with a tendency to belong to institutions that represent constituted power, charismatic, with religious and social hypersensitivity. To all that we would add a tendency to fantasy. In sum, we have to forget the stereotype of the savage book destroyer. Ignorant people are the most innocent.
"I read because each good reading experience gave me an even stronger motive to keep reading." p.4
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Could the reader, astonished by this chronicle of disasters, have imagined that the twenty-first century would begin with the despoiliation and the destruction of the cradle of civilization?
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Please note that the correct English subtitle for the edition published in 2008 by Atlas & Co. is "From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq," not "modern-day Iraq."
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A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. With diligence and grace, Báez mounts a compelling investigation into the motives behind the destruction of books, reading man's violence against writing as a perverse anti-creation. His findings ultimately attest to the lasting power of books as the great human repository of knowledge and memory, fragile yet vital bulwarks against the intransigence and barbarity of every age.--From publisher description.
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