{"id":584,"date":"2017-04-30T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T13:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2017-04-30T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T13:31:36","slug":"the-afterlife-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/the-afterlife-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afterlife of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jonathan Swift imagined a battle of books in the night, volumes hurling themselves off the shelves to tear each other&#8217;s pages out. But what really happens when the lights are dimmed, when readers go home, when a library falls into disuse or is abandoned to human\u00a0disaster?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The Library at Night<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acaserne.net\/index2.php\/robertlepage\/\">Robert Lepage<\/a>, Canada\u2019s theatrical genius, was inspired by Alberto Manguel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2008\/apr\/27\/society\"><em>The Library at Night<\/em><\/a> to create a virtual-reality nocturnal\u00a0visit to the world\u2019s great libraries.\u00a0The installation, developed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Montreal\u2019s Grande Biblioth\u00e8que, opened in Montreal in 2015, closed in Quebec City this month, and is moving to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnf.fr\/en\/cultural_events\/anx_exhibitions\/f.bibliotheque_la_nuit_eng.html\">Francois-Mitterand Library<\/a> in Paris for the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/library-forest.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-589\" src=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/library-forest-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/library-forest-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/library-forest-600x382.jpg 600w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/library-forest.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Imagine walking through a dark forest of looming birches, the ground underfoot adrift in leaves\u2014the leaves of books. You sit at a small library table, under the wan light of a green-glass lamp, pull on a set of heavy glasses, look up into the starry sky, and suddenly you are in the library at Alexandria, where clerks are shelving papyrus rolls, flames licking\u00a0at their feet. Or you&#8217;re in the Nautilus, in Jules Verne&#8217;s imaginary library, twenty thousand leagues under the sea.<\/p>\n<p>To enter this virtual reality, you first walk through a recreation of the private library Manguel\u2014one of the world\u2019s great bibliophiles\u2014housed in a 15th-century barn in the Loire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like memory, a library works differently at night,\u201d writes Manguel, who often sits in his library in the wee hours. \u201cBy day, each book seems to offer itself to the gaze equitably and democratically. But at night, certain books disappear while others assert themselves in the halo of your light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lepage calls holdings such as the Copenhagen Library, where books can be seen but not borrowed, \u2018dead libraries.\u2019 When we no longer need physical books, he\u00a0says, &#8220;We think, oh, libraries will just go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But will they?<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Last Folio<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0112-2-e1493558626578.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0112-2-e1493558626578-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0112-2-e1493558626578-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0112-2-e1493558626578-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0112-2-e1493558626578-600x800.jpg 600w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0112-2-e1493558626578.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In 1942, a small Jewish village in Slovakia was abandoned as its citizens fled the Second World War or were hauled away to concentration camps. The local school remained locked until ten years ago when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuridojc.com\/\">Yuri Dojc<\/a>, a Canadian photographer, opened the door with his documentary film team and recorded the books decaying on dusty shelves, silent survivors of a brutal history.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/76126627\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox_video\">film<\/a> and Dojc\u2019s photographs, which are at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artgalleryofhamilton.com\/ex_current.php#lastfolio\">Art Gallery of Hamilton<\/a> until mid May, are not just a memorial to the bindings of paper we call books.<\/p>\n<p>In Dojc\u2019s portraits, the stories can be felt and the human history, too: the hands that once opened these pages, the fingers that traced the words.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnf.fr\/en\/cultural_events\/anx_exhibitions\/f.kiefer_alchimie_eng.html:\">The Alchemy of Books<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12ac487498964da500e8b9232db9ba95.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-587\" src=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12ac487498964da500e8b9232db9ba95-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12ac487498964da500e8b9232db9ba95-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12ac487498964da500e8b9232db9ba95.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/kief\/hd_kief.htm\">Anselm Kiefer<\/a>, German painter and sculptor, sees books as collective memory. They are the spine of his life\u2019s work: sand books, burnt books, books made of lead, recent books of erotic watercolours made on plaster, and an entire library, Shevirat Ha-Kelim or the<em> Breaking of the Vessels<\/em>\u2014a 17-foot-tall bookshelf with 41 oversized lead books decorated and interspersed with broken glass that shatters to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Forty of his \u201cartist\u2019s books\u201d will soon be on display at Gagosian\u2019s 21st Street gallery and this week Kiefer makes a rare public appearance at the New York Public Library to talk about them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don&#8217;t construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Future Library<\/h3>\n<p>It is impossible to imagine what future technologies will keep our print and digital books alive and readable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/atwood.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-590\" src=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/atwood-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/atwood-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/atwood-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/atwood-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/merilynsimonds.com\/books-unpacked-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/atwood.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katiepaterson.org\">Katie Paterson<\/a>, a Scottish installation artist, has begun a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelibrary.no\/\">Future Library Project<\/a>\u00a0that demonstrates extraordinary\u2014some might say foolhardy\u2014faith in the survival of the book. Every year for the next hundred years, a writer will be invited to prepare a manuscript that will be sealed, as both printed text and on a thumb drive, in a special room in the new Deichman Library in Oslo. Margaret Atwood was the first in 2014, followed by David Mitchell and the Icelandic writer Sj\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the project, a forest of one thousand trees was planted; a century from now, the trees will be pulped to produce the paper to print an anthology of the one hundred sealed texts. Perhaps by then printed books will have gone the way of the scroll. Just in case, Katie Paterson has added\u00a0a printing press to the vault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very optimistic to do a project that believes there will be people in a hundred years, that those people will still be reading, that they will be interested in opening all of these boxes and seeing what\u2019s inside them, and that we will be able to communicate across time, which is what any book is\u2014a communication across space and time,\u201d Atwood mused for a video camera as she leaned against a tree near the newly planted forest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuture Library is hopeful in its essence, because it believes there\u2019s going to be a reader in the future,\u201d says Katie. To which Atwood smiles her characteristic wry smile. \u201cNature doesn\u2019t really care whether there are human beings or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or books, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>But if there <em>are<\/em> humans, my bet is that there will be something to read. Technologies come and go, but if history is anything to go by, the human craving for story is eternal.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1477364431886{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ededed !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-radius: 2px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you have a personal library? What will happen to it when you are gone? Do all the\u00a0libraries of\u00a0your life still exist?<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jonathan Swift imagined a battle of books in the night, volumes hurling themselves off the shelves to tear each other&#8217;s pages out. 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