Beginning from a literary experience, this text intends to sketch some considerations about the following issues: what is reading? Who we can denominate reader? Is the library really a space that can amplify the resources which are used to understand and question the reality that surround us? To achieve this goal, the article adopts as premises that reading does not take the form of practices of seeking and uncritical reproduction of meaning that are previously frozen by the producer of any work and that any reader must be understood as an autonomous subject that circulates and appropriate the text freely, creating their own interpretations for the signs that manipulate based on their wish, cognitive abilities and social places. Such signs are originated in and preserved by distinct cultural spheres, especially the libraries, since they work as a safe harbor for deliria, dreams, passions, adventures and misfortunes of human soul. That is the reason why libraries acquire (as we wish to assert in the text) the capacity to enchant, fascinate and seduce even the most uncompromising user, as the protagonist of the narrative that is brought to the attention here did.
Library; Library - Reading; Library - Social practice; Library - Meaning production; Library - Cultural practice