bookstore roaming

"Throughout my childhood I have always had two ambitions: to be a writer or a private eye. The latter ambition is reflected in my tireless exploration of bookstores and their history." Jorge Carrión in Both ambitions are practiced in this book.

In this wonderful and entertaining book, Jorge Carrion takes us to bookstores on five continents and connects the history of the world's book trade from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century. It is a dazzling world, but it has also ushered in the end of the day, and this map of books is worth sharing with all of us who love books.

Walking in bookstores of different sizes in the world, the author, like a private detective, unearthed many anecdotes about writers that are closely related to the fate of bookstores. Goethe, Diderot, Benjamin, Borges, Ferlinghetti, Joyce, Mallarme, Walser, García Márquez, Cortázar, Chatwin, Bolaño, Rushdie, hold on. For them, the bookstore is a place of physical and spiritual rest. There are both literary criticism and personalized literary history.