Über Bibliotheken

"Mission Michelangelo" habe ich am Wochenende direkt ausgelesen. Vom Thema her war es wahnsinnig interessant, aber einfach zu schnell abgehandelt. Vor allem die Rettung der von den Nazis geraubten Kunstwerke hätte ich gerne ausführlicher beschrieben gehabt. Das Buch war eher eine Einführung in das Thema und ich hoffe, das "The Monuments Men" besser sein wird.

 

Am Montag habe ich dann mit einem Buch begonnen, das die Liebe zu Bibliotheken beschreibt, und welche wundervolle Rückzugsorte Bibliotheken sind. Ich habe bisher die Hälfte gelesen und es ist schon sehr interessant, weil es auch über private Bibliotheken erzählt, und auch ein bisschen die Geschichte der Bibliotheken.

 

Meine Lektüre:

Alberto MANGUEL

The Library at Night

Description: Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.

 

Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the “complete” libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria as well as the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought—the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral “memory libraries” kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, the library of books never written. —Manguel illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout,The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through Manguel’s mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations.