by Fernando Báez · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423344123
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«Nueva historia universal de la destrucción de libros» is the historical essay by Fernando Báez, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback.
A journey through five millennia of book destruction: from Sumerian tablets and the Library of Alexandria to the Nazi book burnings, the censorship of authors such as Joyce or Rushdie, and the looting of the libraries of Baghdad. Báez documents how political and religious intolerance has tried to erase written memory.
The book is number 190 in the Imago Mundi collection, has 480 pages, and was published in 2004.
For those interested in the history of written culture, censorship, and the destruction of bibliographic heritage.
