ABSTRACT
The Renaissance explores the universe; the baroque explores libraries. Benjamin1
I … had always thought of Paradise In form and image as a library.
- in archival documents: these are my childhood memories, just as impenetrable as are such documents when I do not know their provenance
Flaubert is to the library what Manet is to the museum. They both produced works in a self-conscious relationship to earlier paintings or texts – or rather to the aspect in painting or writing that remains indefinitely open.
