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El Infinito En Un Junco / Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
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by Irene Vallejo


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De humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de seda, de piel, de rboles, de plstico 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 fabricacin y de todos los modelos y formatos de libros que hemos ensayado a lo largo de casi treinta siglos. Es, adems, un libro de viajes. Una ruta con escalas en los campos de batalla de Alejandro y en la Villa de los Papiros bajo la erupcin del Vesubio, en los palacios de Cleopatra y en el escenario del crimen de Hipatia, en las primeras libreras conocidas y en los talleres de copia manuscrita, en las hogueras donde ardieron cdices prohibidos, en el gulag, en la biblioteca de Sarajevo y en el laberinto subterrneo de Oxford en el ao 2000. Un hilo que une a los clsicos con el vertiginoso mundo contemporneo, conectndolos con debates actuales: Aristfanes y los procesos judiciales contra humoristas, Safo y la voz literaria de las mujeres, Tito Livio y el fenmeno fan, Sneca 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, espas, rebeldes, monjas, esclavos, aventureras; Lectores en paisajes de montaa y junto al mar que ruge, en las capitales donde la energa se concentra y en los enclaves ms apartados donde el saber se refugia en tiempos de caos. Gente comn cuyos nombres en muchos casos no registra la historia, esos salvadores de libros que son los autnticos protagonistas de esta obra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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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  • Title El Infinito En Un Junco / Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
  • Author Irene Vallejo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Vintage Espanol
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780593312575 / 0593312570
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Cultural Region: North Africa
  • Library of Congress subjects Books, Books - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 002

About the author

Irene Vallejo (Zaragoza, 1979) estudi Filologa Clsica y obtuvo el Doctorado Europeo por las universidades de Zaragoza y Florencia. En la actualidad lleva a cabo una intensa labor de divulgacin del mundo clsico impartiendo conferencias y cursos. Colabora con el diario Heraldo de Aragn y con El Pas Semanal. De su obra literaria destacan las novelas La luz sepultada (2011) y El silbido del arquero (2015). Ha publicado ensayos y libros infantiles. Las antologas Alguien habl de nosotros (2017) y El futuro recordado (2020) recogen sus artculos periodsticos.
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