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The dark library

Title
The dark library / Cyrille Martinez ; translated by Joseph Patrick Stancil.
Author
Martinez, Cyrille, 1972-
Publication
  • Toronto : Coach House Books, [2020]
  • ©2020

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TextUse in library JFC 21-190Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
Stancil, Joseph Patrick
Description
167 pages; 19 cm
Summary
"Libraries are magical places. But what if they're even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez's library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He's tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops. Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary? The Dark Library is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free."--
Uniform Title
Bibliothèque noire. English
Alternative Title
Bibliothèque noire.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Allegories.
  • Fiction.
Note
  • "Originally published as La bibliothèque noire by Libella, Paris, 2018"--Title page verso.
Language (note)
  • In English. Translated from the French.
Call Number
JFC 21-190
ISBN
  • 9781552454077
  • 155245407X
OCLC
1144094825
Author
Martinez, Cyrille, 1972- author.
Title
The dark library / Cyrille Martinez ; translated by Joseph Patrick Stancil.
Publisher
Toronto : Coach House Books, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First English-language edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Language
In English. Translated from the French.
Added Author
Stancil, Joseph Patrick, translator.
Other Form:
Online version: Martinez, Cyrille, 1972- Bibliothèque noire. English. Dark library. Toronto : Coach House Books, 2020 1770566228 9781770566224 (OCoLC)1193035830
Research Call Number
JFC 21-190
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