Umberto Eco

Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Philippe de Tonnac

Polly McLean

'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them admitting ignorance of the future. Amidst the twittering, the thoughts of Jean-Claude Carrière and Umberto Eco come as a breath of fresh air. This thought-provoking book takes the form of a conversation in which Carrière and Eco discuss everything from how to define the first book to what is happening to knowledge now that infinite amounts of information are available at the click of a mouse. En route there are delightful digressions into personal anecdote. We find out about Eco's first computer and the book Carrière is most sad to have sold. And while, as Carrière says, the one certain thing about the future is that it is unpredictable, it is clear from this conversation that, in some form or other, the book will survive.

This is Not the End of the Book

Sosi Dolanoğlu

Kitaplardan kurtulabileceğinizi sanmayın

Nadie acabará con los libros

Emanoil Marcu

Nu speraţi că veţi scăpa de cărţi

Anna Maria Lorusso

Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco, non sperate di liberarvi dei libri

Roland Feuillas

Au début des années 2000, Roland Feuillas quitte une carrière de chef d’entreprise pour se tourner vers le pain. Mais pas n’importe quel pain : un pain issu des variétés anciennes et qui en restitue la puissance nutritionnelle. Pour ce faire, il a travaillé à maîtriser toutes les séquences du cycle de la transformation du grain au pain, en ingénieur qu’il est de formation, en artisan dans la famille desquels il s’est inscrit, en artiste des longues fermentations et des cuissons au feu de bois, en paysan qu’il rêve de devenir.

À la recherche du pain vivant

Gespräche mit Jean-Philippe de Tonnac

Die große Zukunft des Buches

Jean-Philippe de Tonnac

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