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Footnote

(pp. 267-277). In chapter 5 (pp. 75-89), Levie discusses Otlet's interest in urbanism (also see, p. 147 ff) and recounts how in Westende he built from scratch a complete coastal village, a kind of miniutopia, in close collaboration with the architects Octave Van Rysselberghe and Henry Van de Velde (unfortunately, it was destroyed in 1914). In close connection to their pacifist ideals, Otlet and his Nobelprize winning co-worker Lafontaine sought to realize a World City and in 1911 saw their ambitions shared by the joint work of the French architect Ernest Hébrard and the American-Norwegian sculptor Hendrik Anderson (pp. 128-141). Later, in the late 1920s, Otlet joined forces with Le Corbusier to establish such a world-centre (pp. 229-247, a 1930 letter of Le Corbusier to Otlet on this matter is reproduced on pages 234-235). In his later moments of desperation, Otlet called on virtually every major political leader, including Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler to achieve this goal (pp. 217-218, p. 294). In these chapters related to architecture, Levie draws extensively on previously unstudied correspondence and adds much detail to our knowledge of Otlet's explorations in this area. In several other chapters, Levie documents in great detail the less unknown rise and downfall of Otlet's "Mondial Palace" (which was inaugurated in 1919) (chapters 12-14 and 16). Looking back on Otlet's endeavours it is not difficult to realize that many of his "utopian" ideas were realized in the course of history. Levie's unique work represents a most welcome update of our knowledge of Otlet. It bears direct relevance for historians of information science and bibliography and historians of architecture, but will, no doubt, attract many scholars from other disciplines, as it places Otlet against the background of several important historical trends and as it is very accessibly written. I take it that publishers are already preparing an English edition of this work - or else, they should be. I wholeheartedly agree with Levie's conclusion that we haven't finished discovering Otlet's work (p. 318)."

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Footnote

Rez. in: Mitteilungen der VÖB. 61(2008) H.1, S.79-81 (M. Katzmayr): "Was ist an einer Bibliothek bei Nacht besonderes? Für Alberto Manguel, der schon mehrmals, etwa mit "Eine Geschichte des Lesens", literatur- und buchgeschichtliche Expertise und bibliophile Leidenschaft bewiesen hat, ist die Nacht die Zeit des Lesens in seiner privaten Bibliothek. Wo tagsüber Systematik und Ordnung herrschten, könne sich nachts die Phantasie frei entfalten: "Die Geräusche werden gedämpft, die Gedanken lauter [...] Die Bücher sind jetzt die wahren Lebewesen, die mich, den Leser, durch die kabbalistischen Ri- tuale halbverschwommener Buchstaben heraufbeschwören und zu einen bestimmten Band, einer bestimmten Seite locken. Die Ordnung der Bibliothekskataloge ist in der Nacht nur Konvention; sie ist ohne Bedeutung irr Reich der Schatten." (22f.). Das vorliegende Werk ist allerdings mehr als eine emotionale und dichterische Liebeserklärung eines Bibliophilen an Bibliotheken im Allgemeiner bzw. an seine Privatbibliothek im Besonderen. Manguel versucht vielmehr die grundlegenden Beweggründe hinter dem unerlässlichen Sammeln unc Archivieren von Informationen zu entdecken; einem Sammeln, dass Sinr und Ordnung in die Welt tragen soll, letztlich aber - so seine pessimistisch( Vorwegnahme - zum Scheitern verurteilt sei. Zwischen dieser Frage und seiner sehr persönlichen Antwort in dei Schlussbemerkung liegt ein umfangreicher Essay, der in anekdotischer Art vorwiegend historische, literarische und philosophische Aspekte unterschiedlicher mit der Bibliothek verbundener Themenkreise behandelt. Sc wird die Bibliothek als Ordnung, Raum, Form, Macht, Identität, Werkstatt, Zuhause etc. einer eingehenden Betrachtung unterzogen. ... Egal wie diese letztlich ja nur scheinbare Kontroverse zwischen gedruckt und digital bewertet werden mag - dieses äußerst preiswerte, reich bebilderte und auch sonst sehr schön gestaltete Buch kann ohne Vorbehalt empfohlen werden. Wie gut, dass Manguel es tatsächlich geschrieben hat und es nicht nur in der Bibliothek ungeschriebener Bücher ein flüchtiges Dasein fristet. In diesem Fall wären nämlich selbst die Bemühungen eines wiederauferstandenen Paul Masson nur ein schwacher Trost."

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