Memória, cidade e bibliofilia

Abstract

Investigates the relation between memory, city and bibliophilia building a literary revision through the points of view of the studied authors. Talks, also, about places of memory, introducing the city as a place of memory, viewing the construction of the identity of the subjects through what is read and seen in their literary patrimony. In the end approaches the possibility of a memory from places through books and oral registers and also in fiction, using literature as a way to portray a social context, era and time. Presents the concepts of bibliophilia and its possible origins and the different conotations that the term has carried throughout the centuries, as well as a brief history of bibliophilia in Brazil. The results of this study show that the bibliophile has a relation with memory as a book collector and student of its history, whose role is essential in the formation of rare and memorialistic collections