«Y que la Biblioteca perdurará»: from Jorge Luis Borges to Amazon

Authors

  • Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo Università degli Studi di Padova

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58015/2036-2293/590

Keywords:

Amazon, literary market, quantity, self-publishing, literary public, Jorge Luis Borges

Abstract

A lecture of famous Borges’ novel as an allegory of literarian offer of Bezos’colossus. In it, not only potential consumer is brought to get lost himself between books already written into the dedicated section of the website, but also an apposite page invite him to self-publish other, contributing in first person to the increase of that quantity that disorientates him. But the vertigo of infinity and impossibility on wich Argentinian writer counts are mixed into contemporary world, with euphoria of the routs that still succeed, that hole the confusion to assert himself. Impossible and possible coexist in another Internet’s magic somersault.

Published

12 Dec 2022

How to Cite

Salvagnini Zanazzo, G. “«Y Que La Biblioteca perdurará»: From Jorge Luis Borges to Amazon”. Testo E Senso, no. 24, Dec. 2022, pp. 77-86, doi:10.58015/2036-2293/590.

Issue

Section

Dossier: In the Web of GAFAM: Smartphones, Platform Society and Monopsons of Knowledge