LIBRARIES
2025
Libraries are the fabric that articulates the human experience, a vast archive where our fleeting mortality finds continuity in collective memory. Each book, as Jorge Luis Borges envisioned in “The Library of Babel”, is a vestige of thought and emotion, a thread connecting generations and defying the erosion of time. Within them, the fragile and individual are woven into a greater tapestry, transcending the transient condition of their creators.
More than mere repositories of knowledge, libraries are, as Alberto Manguel suggests in “The Library at Night”, monuments to suspended time—spaces where the past converses with the present and projects into the future. They function as systems of transmission, consolidating our collective identity as a species in an act of resistance against oblivion, echoing what Umberto Eco describes in “The Name of the Rose”: sanctuaries where humanity confronts its fragility by preserving, interpreting, and giving continuity to its ideas.