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New York Public Library celebrates 100 years with Borges
The New York Public Library celebrates one hundred years of life with an eclectic exhibition featuring the most precious treasures of his vast collection, including a Jorge Luis Borges's manuscript, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible and a suit of the dreaded Ku Klux Klan.
Photo: http://rincondelbibliotecario.blogspot.com/
BY AFP New York
"If the devil himself wrote a book, we would have him in the library," once said Edwin Hatfield Anderson , director between 1913 and 1934 of the celebrated institution located on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan and guarded by statues of lions "Patience" and "Fortress".
Since 1911 curator of the New York Public Library have tried to meet that goal encyclopedic, guided by the philosophy that "all knowledge is worth preserving."
why the show opened on Saturday, and will run until 31 December, ranging from Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform script II-III century BC to a Macintosh laptop that shows the newspaper's Web site New York Times. Among the treasures
exposed and highlighted by the centuries-old institution in its advertising and presentation of the exhibition, is the manuscript of the story "The Lottery in Babylon," the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).
"The Lottery in Babylon", included in the book "Stories" (1944) and tells the story of a city where all activity is determined by a lottery is drawn by hand with neat handwriting, including deletions and additions, in a school notebook of graph paper.
The exhibition, divided into four parts (Note, Contemplation, Creativity and Society), also includes a copy of the Gutenberg Bible of 1455, the first book printed with types cast, an edition of "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler 1940, and a scroll painted with watercolor and ink with the "Tale of Genji" a classic of Japanese literature of the seventeenth century.
Other jewels can be seen in the large exhibition hall of the building are the only existing copy of a Columbus letter of 1493 detailing some of his findings, and the Journal of American activist Malcolm X of his trip to Mecca in 1964.
The sample does not refer only to works and writings, but also includes objects, some of them curious, as the hooded white dress used by members of the American right-wing organization Ku Klux Klan, or Cane The British writer Virginia Woolf found in a river of the country shortly after his suicide in 1941.
The celebration of the library includes the presentation of a book based installation works of American writers William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Francis Scott Fitzgerald, as well as readings and lectures for adults and children.
Photo: http://rincondelbibliotecario.blogspot.com/
BY AFP New York
"If the devil himself wrote a book, we would have him in the library," once said Edwin Hatfield Anderson , director between 1913 and 1934 of the celebrated institution located on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan and guarded by statues of lions "Patience" and "Fortress".
Since 1911 curator of the New York Public Library have tried to meet that goal encyclopedic, guided by the philosophy that "all knowledge is worth preserving."
why the show opened on Saturday, and will run until 31 December, ranging from Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform script II-III century BC to a Macintosh laptop that shows the newspaper's Web site New York Times. Among the treasures
exposed and highlighted by the centuries-old institution in its advertising and presentation of the exhibition, is the manuscript of the story "The Lottery in Babylon," the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).
"The Lottery in Babylon", included in the book "Stories" (1944) and tells the story of a city where all activity is determined by a lottery is drawn by hand with neat handwriting, including deletions and additions, in a school notebook of graph paper.
The exhibition, divided into four parts (Note, Contemplation, Creativity and Society), also includes a copy of the Gutenberg Bible of 1455, the first book printed with types cast, an edition of "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler 1940, and a scroll painted with watercolor and ink with the "Tale of Genji" a classic of Japanese literature of the seventeenth century.
Other jewels can be seen in the large exhibition hall of the building are the only existing copy of a Columbus letter of 1493 detailing some of his findings, and the Journal of American activist Malcolm X of his trip to Mecca in 1964.
The sample does not refer only to works and writings, but also includes objects, some of them curious, as the hooded white dress used by members of the American right-wing organization Ku Klux Klan, or Cane The British writer Virginia Woolf found in a river of the country shortly after his suicide in 1941.
The celebration of the library includes the presentation of a book based installation works of American writers William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Francis Scott Fitzgerald, as well as readings and lectures for adults and children.
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