Teorias de la lectura: libros, cuerpos y
bibliomania.
Flaubert--me cuenta Pacheco--escribe su primer novela,
Bibliomania (1837), para una revista de su natal Ruan, Le Colibri, con el tema del bibliopata.
In her article '
Bibliomania: The strange history of compulsive book buying' for The Guardian, Lorraine Berry wrote: 'Perhaps today,
bibliomania does not feel like an irrational behavior, as books have become less venerated and libraries rarer.
De haber sobrevivido, a Ulises Carrion lo imagino envejeciendo en Other Books and So, en Amsterdam, ejerciendo el coleccionismo--collector o philobiblon segun lo clasifica Jaime Moreno Villarreal en De
bibliomania.
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and
Bibliomania.
But by 1750, when an excessive preoccupation with the book as a physical object was first being diagnosed as
bibliomania, a condition defined in opposition to reading, such language was becoming increasingly archaic.
Like many English collectors throughout the nineteenth century, Grey was influenced by the rage for acquiring rare, curious, and splendid books that Thomas Fragnall Dibdin (1776-1847) eulogised in his
Bibliomania (1809).
The traffic in incunabula and the commodity fetishism of
bibliomania entailed the supplanting of the book's association with religion and rank by the ideology of the market and the necessity for more inclusive criteria of value that would enable these books to function properly as commodities: according to Jensen, "for things to gain value in the market they must be identifiable as belonging to a class of objects, but they must also be distinguishable within the class.
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and
Bibliomania.
Esa biblioteca de estantes vacios que habra que llenar para tapar el hueco, "aunque solo fueran muchos libros fantasmas para que el hueco siguiera ahi de cuerpo presente" (Libertella, La arquitectura 17), desata una
bibliomania, pathos de la letra donde la vida se jugara en los vaivenes de leer, releer, escribir, reescribir, cada vez mas enlazados, mas superpuestos, hasta volverse dificilmente discernibles.
Gail-Nina Anderson's talk 'At Your Peril: The bizarre world of Gothic literature and
bibliomania explored' is at Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, at 2pm on November 28 as part of Books on Tyne, the Newcastle books festival - details on www.
La
bibliomania y la "biblioclastia" forman parte de la relacion del hombre con ellos.
bibliomania - preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books