Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4236-8 (ISBN)
The word "bibliophilia" indicates a love of books, both as texts to be read and objects to be cherished for their physical qualities. Throughout the history of Iberian print culture, bibliophiles have attempted to explain the psychological experiences of reading and collecting books, as well as the social and economic conditions of book production.
Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians analyses Spanish bibliophiles who catalogue, organize, and archive books, as well as the publishers, artists, and writers who create them. Robert Richmond Ellis examines how books are represented in modern Spanish writing and how Spanish bibliophiles reflect on the role of books in their lives and in the histories and cultures of modern Spain. Through the combined approaches of literary studies, book history, and the book arts, Ellis argues that two strains of Spanish bibliophilia coalesce in the modern period: one that envisions books as a means of achieving personal fulfilment, and another that engages with politics and uses books to affirm linguistic, cultural, and regional and national identities.
Robert Richmond Ellis is the Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish at Occidental College.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bibliophilia
The Spanish Context
Part 1: The Legend of the Murderous Bookman of Barcelona
A. The French Background of the Tale
B. The Gazette and Flaubert Narratives and the Sartrean Interpretation
C. Ramon Miquel i Planas as Bibliophile and Catalanist
D. The Catalan Llegenda: Visual Innovation and Narrative Recovery
E. The Legacy of Fra Vicents
Part 2: Bibliophiles, Bibliographers, and Bookstore Browsers
A. Bartolomé José Gallardo
B. Vicente Salvá and Pedro Salvá
C. Dionisio Hidalgo
D. Azorín
Part 3: Lost Books and Textual Restitution
A. Re-imagining the Spanish Past: Library Fantasies in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La sombra del viento
B. Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia, and the Tenacity of Memory in Manuel Rivas’s Os libros arden mal
C. The Besieged Library of Sarajevo and the Marvelous Power of Literature in Juan Goytisolo’s El sitio de los sitios
Part 4: Nuria Amat and the Persistence of Books
A. The Writer-Librarian and the Library Effect
B. Digital Technology and Book Fever
C. The Return to the Library
Part 5: Miquel Plana and the Book as a Work of Art
Colophon
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Toronto Iberic |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 b&w illustration, 11 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 640 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4236-4 / 1487542364 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4236-8 / 9781487542368 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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