This Is Not the End of the Book:

Name: This Is Not the End of the Book:
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ISBN: 9780810127470

ISBN-10: 0810127474

ISBN-13: 9780810127470

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean-Claude Carriere, Umberto Eco, Jean-Philippe De Tonnac

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A book lover today might sometimes feel like the fictional medieval friar William of Baskerville in Eco’s The Name of the Rose, watching the written word become lost to time. In This Is Not the End of the Book, that book’s author, Umberto Eco, and his fellow raconteur Jean-Claude Carriere sit down for a dazzling dialogue about memory and the pitfalls, blanks, omissions, and irredeemable losses of which it is made. Both men collect rare and precious books, and they joyously hold up books as hardy survivors, engaging in a critical, impassioned, and rollicking journey through book history, from papyrus scrolls to the e-book. Along the way, they touch upon science and subjectivity, dialectics…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


The book will never die


There is nothing more ephemeral than long-term media formats


It took chickens almost a century to learn not to cross the road


Do we need to know the name of every soldier at the Battle of Waterloo?


The revenge of the filtered-out


Every book published today is a post-incunabulum


Books with a will to survive


Our knowledge of the past comes from halfwits, fools and people with a grudge


Nothing can put an end to vanity


In praise of stupidity


The Internet, or the impossibility of damnatio memoriae


Fire as censor


All the books we haven't read


Books on the altar and books in 'Hell'


What will happen to your book collections when you die?