Main entry:

Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-2021, author. aut

Title & Author:

This is not the end of the book : a conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac / Jean-Claude Carrière & Umberto Eco ; translated from the French by Polly McLean.

Publication:

London : Vintage, 2012.
©2011

Description:

xi, 336 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2011.
The book will never die -- There is nothing more ephemeral than long-term media formats -- It took chickens almost a century to learn not to cross the road -- Do we need to know the name of every soldier at the Battle of Waterloo? -- The revenge of the filtered-out -- Every book published today is a post-incunabulum -- Books with a will to survive -- Our knowledge of the past comes from halfwits, fools and people with a grudge -- Nothing can put an end to vanity -- In praise of stupidity -- The Internet, or the impossibility of damnatio memoriae [a record of convictions] -- Fire as censor -- All the books we haven't read -- Books on the altar and books in 'Hell' -- What will happen to your book collections when you die?
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them admitting ignorance of the future. Amidst the twittering, the thoughts of Jean-Claude Carrière and Umberto Eco come as a breath of fresh air. This thought-provoking book takes the form of a conversation in which Carrière and Eco discuss everything from how to define the first book to what is happening to knowledge now that infinite amounts of information are available at the click of a mouse. En route there are delightful digressions into personal anecdote. We find out about Eco's first computer and the book Carrière is most sad to have sold. And while, as Carrière says, the one certain thing about the future is that it is unpredictable, it is clear from this conversation that, in some form or other, the book will survive."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780099552451 (paperback)
0099552450 (paperback)

Subject:

Books and reading.
Books and reading Sociological aspects.
Livres et lecture.
Livres et lecture Aspect sociologique.
Böcker och läsning.
Böcker och läsning sociologiska aspekter.

Added entries:

Eco, Umberto, author.
Tonnac, Jean-Philippe de, interviewer.
McLean, Polly, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280050
Call No.: BIB 216473
Status: Available