The Dark Library
by Cyrille Martinez trans. Joseph Patrick Stencil
Description
Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know?
In Cyrille Martinez’s library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. Hear him tell the story of the Old Historian, who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops and readers who never pick up a book.
Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the muchborrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? What will it become in the new, digital world?
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Rights Information
Rights Held: World English
Reviews
‘Satire with wit and quirky characters. This will delight fans of absurdist fiction.’ – Publishers Weekly
Author Biography
Cyrille Martinez is a novelist and poet. He lives in Paris, where he is a librarian of French and comparative literature at the Sorbonne. He has published seven books, some of which have been adapted for theatre, and has done a number of readings in France and abroad. The Dark Library is his second book translated into English.
Joseph Patrick Stancil has studied French and translation at UNC-Chapel Hill and New York University. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Coach House Books
- Publication Date October 2020
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9781552454077
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 20.95 CAD
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Dimensions8 x 5 inches
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