![]() ![]() when they lose their context, they lose their meaning." Through repeated example, Fadiman also shows us how a life gets its meaning from the books with which it coexists. "(B)ooks get their value from the way they coexist with the other books a person owns," Fadiman quotes a friend of hers as saying, "and. The subjects of her 18 short chapters-subjects like plagiarism, the habit of compulsive proofreading, the organization of personal libraries-are used to examine the connection between reading and ordinary living. ![]() ![]() For Fadiman, books are the building blocks (sometimes literally: As a child, she used her father's collection of Trollope for this purpose) with which a life is made. Yet the essays collected in "Ex Libris" make a case for books being more than self-contained and self-referential objects. ![]()
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