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Non Sperate Di Liberarvi Dei Libri (2009)

by Jean-Claude Carrière(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8845262154 (ISBN13: 9788845262159)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bompiani

review 1: N’espérez pas vous débarrasser des livres, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Philippe de Tonnacعنوان: از کتاب رهایی نداریم؛ پدیدآورنده ها: اومبرتو اکو؛ ژان کلود کریر؛ به سعی: ژان فلیپ دو توناک؛ برگردان: مهستی بحرینی؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، نیلوفر، 1389، در 308 ص، شابک: 9789644484711؛ موضوع: مصاحبه با ژان-کلود کاریر 1931 م؛ مصاحبه با اومبرتو اکو 1932 م، جنبه های اجتماعی کتاب، کتاب و مواد خواندنیاگر کتاب الکترونیکی، سرانجام با کنارزدن کتاب چاپی خود را تحمیل کند، باز دلیلی وجود ندارد که ب... moreگوییم میتواند آن را از خانه هامان بیرون کند، و یا موجب شود که عادتمان را به آن از دست بدهیم. بنابرین کتاب را نابود نخواهد کرد چنانکه گوتنبرگ و اختراع نبوغ آمیزش نتوانست بلافاصله نسخه خطی را حذف کند و آن یک نیز نتوانسته بود اوراق پاپیروس را از رواج بیندازد. عمل و عادت با یکدیگر همزیستی دارند و ما بیش از هرچیز مشتاقیم که دایره امکاناتمان را گسترش دهیم
review 2: The book is like the wheel once it was invented it could never be given up, Umberto Eco states in this wonderful book. Eco, no introduction needed, and Jean-Claude Carriére, famous French writer, discuss the origins of the book, the importance of the book to civilizations and the fate of the book in the internet era. To read how these two brilliant minds engage in a discussion that is profound, often hilarious, or both at the same, is not only thought provoking but makes one desperately want to find a way to get an invitation to a dinner with them.To Eco and Carriére the book cannot be bettered. There is no way that the computers or the internet can replace the book because a book can be taken and read anywhere whereas a computer always requires electricity. In a telling anecdote, Eco points out that the invention of a portable book by 16th Century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, is still the most efficient way to carry information as even a mega-gigabyte computer always needs to be plugged in.Through selection, whether intelligent, random or plain stupid, some books have become a reference points upon which we can base our engagement and discourse with others. The internet, on the other hand, doesn't have that selection, at least not yet, and is full of irrelevant minutiae or plain nonsense, that doesn't provide a common ground from which an intellectual discourse can emerge. Eco gives an example, what happened to Caesar's last wife Calpurnia after his assassination has been erased from the collective memory through selection as it has become irrelevant enough not to be written about in the history books. As the internet encourages minutiae, it can lead to situations where a school kid searching the internet about ancient Rome can become to believe that Calpurnia is more important than Caesar.Of course Eco and Carriére acknowledge that by the time the past reaches us it has been severely distorted by many things, not least by human stupidity. After all, in addition to natural catastrophes, fires, etc. it is the humans who have made the selection of what survives in written form. Aristotle mentions in Poetics some twenty plays that do not exist anymore, only the works of Sophocles and Euripides survive. Is it because, the other plays were deliberately destroyed? Maybe these plays were disliked by the Athenians but would have as such told us more or differently about the antiquity than we know from Sophocles and Euripides.Eco and Carriére have great sense of humor that is at times anarchistic and as such brilliantly fresh in our depressingly politically correct times. Both men are of course product of university life in the 1960s. Some reviews have pointed out that the men have archaic views of non-western civilizations that could even border on being racist. That is absolute nonsense because if something is silly or stupid it is silly or stupid regardless of the culture that has produced it.Another point raised by Eco and Carriére that I find fascinating is the idea that we have the book that was written by the author and the book that is read by the reader. These can almost be two different things. For example, Kafka was influenced by Cervantes when he wrote his books but for the reader Cervantes can be influenced by Kafka.Finally, the beauty of book collecting is praised by Eco and Carriére. For a true book collector, it is the hunt for a book that is often much more important than actually owning the book. To our heroes, books are not investments. Collecting books just because of profit strips the book of its beauty by placing the book out of reach from those that would value its beauty. less

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