Book destruction

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Under Books destruction means the destruction of books . The term biblioclasm (from the Greek "βιβλίον" (biblíon) = "book" and "κλᾶν" (klan) = "break") is also used for different forms of book destruction . The term “biblioclasm” itself does not appear in the Duden; the biblioclast is someone “who destroys books out of a passion for collecting by tearing out certain pages”.

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The best known form of book destruction is the publicly staged book burning for religious, ideological or political motives. It is comparable to the iconoclasm (iconoclasm).

Biblioclasm is understood to mean, in particular, the destruction of books through the illegal removal of certain prints, cards and images from books by collectors ( bibliomania ).

The pulping or waste of works for the purpose of producing new paper is less sensational than incineration . This can also be politically motivated or the result of a legal dispute in which z. B. is about the violation of personal rights. But mostly it has to do with the faulty print. The waste research tries u. a. Reconstruct old works that were previously used for the covers of newer books. Often unsalable remaining editions are also rejected, with the author's consent.

In earlier times, documents were destroyed due to a lack of writing materials. Texts on papyri or parchment were often scraped off and the writing material was rewritten ( palimpsest ). The "overwritten" texts can often be made visible again using modern techniques.

literature

  • Mona Körte and Cornelia Ortlieb (eds.): Hide - overwrite - tear: forms of book destruction in literature, art and religion . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-503-09811-8 .
  • Matthew Battles: The World of Books: A History of the Library . Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-538-07165-9 .
  • Birgit Althaus: The book dictionary: reference work for book makers and book lovers . Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89996-256-7 .
  • Marcel Beck: Notes on the history and psychology of biblioclasm ; in: Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen , vol. 39, 1952, pp. 1-17.

Web links

Wiktionary: Biblioclasm  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerrit Bartels: Immortal. Umberto Eco on the art of loving books. In: The time. May 24, 2009, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ Daniel Hitzing: Literary Biblioclasts. Types, contexts and functions of intended book destruction in literature . Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 2012 ( uni-bielefeld.de [PDF]).
  3. ^ Biblioclast, the. In: Duden . Retrieved April 2, 2020 .