John Sutherland
In A Bind
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
By Jacques Bonnet (Translated by Siân Reynolds with an introduction by James Salter)
MacLehose Press 133pp £12 order from our bookshop
Proust’s Overcoat
By Lorenza Foschini (Translated by Eric Karpeles)
Portobello Books 128pp £9.99 order from our bookshop
Something momentous is coming. Bigger than Alexandria, bigger than Savonarola’s bonfires, bigger than the awful incinerations of books at Dresden in 1945 and at Paternoster Row in 1941. In his introduction to Phantoms on the Bookshelves James Salter warns that:
A tide is coming in and the kingdom of books, with their white pages and endpapers, their promise of solitude and discovery, is in danger, after an existence of five hundred years, of being washed away.
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