Not to Be Read without Shuddering
Adam Smyth: The Atheist’s Bible, 20 February 2014
The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
by Georges Minois, translated by Lys AnnWeiss.
Chicago, 249 pp., £21, October 2012,978 0 226 53029 1 Show More
by Georges Minois, translated by Lys AnnWeiss.
Chicago, 249 pp., £21, October 2012,
“... One of the ways in which literary texts are capacious is their ability to contain, within themselves, imaginary books: books that the more literal-minded real world isn’t yet able to realise. Borges’s short fiction is teeming with them. In ‘The Library of Babel’, Borges imagines a library ‘composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries ... ”
