Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians : The Story of Books in Modern Spain.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Bibliophilia -- The Spanish Context -- 1 The Legend of the Murderous Bookman of Barcelona -- The French Background of the Tale -- The Gazette and Flaubert Narratives and the Sartrean Interpretation -- Ramon Miquel i Planas as Bibliophile and Catalanist -- The Catalan Llegenda: Visual Innovation and Narrative Recovery -- The Legacy of Fra Vicents -- 2 Bibliophiles, Bibliographers, and Bookstore Browsers -- Bartolomé José Gallardo -- Vicente Salvá and Pedro Salvá -- Dionisio Hidalgo -- Azorín -- 3 Lost Books and Textual Restitution -- Re-imagining the Spanish Past: Library Fantasies in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento -- Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia, and the Tenacity of Memory in Manuel Rivas's Os libros arden mal -- The Besieged Library of Sarajevo and the Marvelous Power of Literature in Juan Goytisolo's El sitio de los sitios -- 4 Nuria Amat and the Persistence of Books -- The Writer-Librarian and the Library Effect -- Digital Technology and Book Fever -- The Return to the Library -- 5 Miquel Plana and the Book as a Work of Art -- Colophon -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Toronto Iberic.

Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librariansdelves into the practice of bibliophilia - the love of books - and the many ways in which books are represented in modern Spanish literature.

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