My Library of Alexandria
The impossible library: memories of a reading fever in Santiago, Chile.
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The Teaching Methods of Booktubers
The booktuber’s teaching style reveals the tension between superficial promotion of reading and the depth of complex novels in the digital age.
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I left it in your mailbox ‘Con la vida por detrás. Fines de la literatura’
An elegant, twilight meditation on literature, which, already aware of its own mortality and limits in the face of pain, finds its dignity when it inhabits the ruins of language and memory.
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The Old Libraries Are Falling Apart
The disintegration of libraries in Havana as a symptom of other things in the country.
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Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading II (Final)
The library is a refuge for unfulfilled desires, renewed readings, and losses due to exile, intertwining literary ambition, writerly vanity, and cultural fragility.
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Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading I
The library, that labyrinth of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, reflects the insatiable curiosity and chaotic order of a life devoted to reading.
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Prose from the Wunderkammer I: Avant-Dire
Book collecting is an intimate and symbolic practice which, by valuing each book as a unique object with its own material biography, turns the library into a sensory autobiography of the collector.
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Atlas of the Unnecessary: Livraria Bertrand
First chronicle of the most bibliophile of flâneurs. Today, on the streets of Lisbon.
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I left in your mailbox ‘Cómo ordenar una biblioteca’
An exploration of the library as a reflection of the human spirit, where order and chaos, metaphysics and aesthetics intertwine, proposing a lived reading and a resistance to sterile fetishism.
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I left in your mailbox ‘Valéry. Tratar de vivir’
Benoît Peeters’ biography traces an oblique map of Valéry, who turned consciousness into interior architecture, oscillating between clarity of thought and the uncomfortable tenderness of a body that doubts, desires, and ages.