A Passion for Books

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Pleasures of Reading....Pages 3-19
Other Worlds to Inhabit....Pages 21-31
Casaubon’s Syndrome, or Reader Rampant....Pages 33-45
Books in My Life....Pages 47-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Hooked…....Pages 65-67
Mountains and Caverns....Pages 69-76
Obsessed by Thomas Mann....Pages 77-86
Encountering Philip Larkin....Pages 87-97
Devouring of the Printed Page....Pages 99-106
Discovering Jane Eyre....Pages 107-113
The Radiant Way and After....Pages 115-122
Reading My Father....Pages 123-126
Into Terra Nova: A Crossing with Books....Pages 127-136
Sine Qua Non....Pages 137-143
The Performer and the Reader....Pages 145-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Literature without Books?....Pages 155-162
The Sad Demise of the Personal Library....Pages 163-166
The Future of the Academic Book....Pages 167-180
The End of the Book? Some Perspectives on Media Change....Pages 181-197
Back Matter....Pages 199-208