Author: Irene Vallejo
Publisher: Siruela
ISBN: 9788417860790
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 472
Format: 23 x 15 cm
Spanish Language
This is a book about the history of books. A journey through the life of that fascinating artifact that we invented so that words could travel in space and time. The history of its manufacture, of all the types that we have tried over almost thirty centuries: books of smoke, of stone, of clay, of reeds, of silk, of leather, of trees and, the most recent arrivals, of plastic and light.
But above all, this is a fabulous collective adventure involving thousands of people who, over time, have made books possible and protected them: storytellers, scribes, illuminators, translators, street vendors, teachers, scholars, spies, rebels, nuns, slaves, adventurers… Readers in mountain landscapes and by the roaring sea, in capitals where energy is concentrated and in the most remote enclaves where knowledge takes refuge in times of chaos. Ordinary people whose names are often not recorded by history, those saviors of books who are the true protagonists of this essay.
