ABSTRACT
In this article, we analyze how writers of fiction, essays, and memoirs create stories of experiences with reading and libraries within Western book culture and with influences from different genres, such as the histories of books, editing, and reading. This text uses certain topics to explore recurrent representations, metaphors, and allegories present in writings about books, libraries, and readers. The intention is to depict the book as a fictional subject, an exercise in memory, and an object of analysis; to show how fiction and essay writing can be both a way of questioning history and of giving shape to memory; and to show how memory and perception of time can be mediated by books and by the act of reading.
Keywords:
books; fiction; essays, memory, time