Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in
Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series
of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries:
book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the
dreams of infinite other books-past and future-that every
individual codex volume inspires. Whether he is describing his
encounters with Gribski (whose strange hidden library in Bucharest
he is to see but once) or itemizing the various books whose
existence he has dreamed (including "a collection of children's
paeans to Ceausescu bound in the same volume as a slim commentary
on Pound's Canto XIV"), Blyth shows himself to be a card catalogue
unto himself. In the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino,
and Alberto Manguel, this book is bound to please.
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