Nueva historia universal de la destrucción de libros: de las tablillas sumerias a la era digital
History
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"Water, earthquakes, accidents, the all-pervading weather, acid on paper; all of them have caused the disappearance of priceless books. But also, and more significantly, war, censorship, idleness, the desire for cultural annihilation. The destruction of books is not just another… way of making objects disappear: it is an action against ideas, memory and thought. In this sobering work, Fernando Báez recounts the ways in which humans have destroyed books or allowed them to disappear. From the burning of the Library of Alexandria to the looting of the National Library of Baghdad to the burnings ordered by the Nazis and by the Spanish and European Inquisition, lost books are shown as wounds in the eternal struggle between culture and barbarism." -- Translation provided by NLS