De humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de seda, de piel, de ???rboles, de pl???stico y de luz... Un recorrido por la vida del libro y de quienes lo han salvaguardado durante casi treinta siglos. Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo. Es la historia de su fabricaci???n y de todos los modelos y formatos de libros que hemos ensayado a lo largo de casi treinta siglos. Es, adem???s, un ...
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De humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de seda, de piel, de ???rboles, de pl???stico y de luz... Un recorrido por la vida del libro y de quienes lo han salvaguardado durante casi treinta siglos. Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo. Es la historia de su fabricaci???n y de todos los modelos y formatos de libros que hemos ensayado a lo largo de casi treinta siglos. Es, adem???s, un libro de viajes. Una ruta con escalas en los campos de batalla de Alejandro y en la Villa de los Papiros bajo la erupci???n del Vesubio, en los palacios de Cleopatra y en el escenario del crimen de Hipatia, en las primeras librer???as conocidas y en los talleres de copia manuscrita, en las hogueras donde ardieron c???dices prohibidos, en el gulag, en la biblioteca de Sarajevo y en el laberinto subterr???neo de Oxford en el a???o 2000. Un hilo que une a los cl???sicos con el vertiginoso mundo contempor???neo, conect???ndolos con debates actuales: Arist???fanes y los procesos judiciales contra humoristas, Safo y la voz literaria de las mujeres, Tito Livio y el fen???meno fan, S???neca y la posverdad... Pero, sobre todo, esta es una fabulosa aventura colectiva protagonizada por miles de personas que, a lo largo del tiempo, han hecho posibles y han protegido los libros: narradoras orales, escribas, iluminadores, traductores, vendedores ambulantes, maestras, sabios, esp???as, rebeldes, monjas, esclavos, aventureras; Lectores en paisajes de monta???a y junto al mar que ruge, en las capitales donde la energ???a se concentra y en los enclaves m???s apartados donde el saber se refugia en tiempos de caos. Gente com???n cuyos nombres en muchos casos no registra la historia, esos salvadores de libros que son los aut???nticos protagonistas de esta obra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Shortlisted for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. From smoke, stone, clay, silk, leather, trees, plastic, and light ... A journey through the life of books and of those who have safeguarded them for almost thirty centuries. This is a book about the history of books. A journey through the life of that fascinating object that we invented so that words could travel in space and time. It is also a travel book whose route has stopovers in the battlefields of Alexander the Great and in the Villa of the Papyri during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, in Cleopatra's palaces and at the scene of Hypatia's murder, in the first-ever known bookstores and in the workshops where manuscripts were copied, at the bonfires where forbidden texts were burned, in the gulag, in the Sarajevo library, and in the Oxford underground labyrinth in 2000. It is a thread that unites classics with the dizzying contemporary world, connecting them with current debates: Aristophanes and the judicial processes against comedy-writers, Sapphoand the literary voice of women, Tito Livio and the fan phenomenon, Seneca and post-truth. But above all, this is a fabulous collective adventure starring thousands of people who, over time, have made books possible and have protected them.
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