Fictional archives and archivists

[delphipsmith]

I love to find representations of archives and archivists in fiction. Dracula wants his books cataloged? Yes! Scholarly commentary on non-existent tomes? You bet! Footnotes with citations to fictional reference works? I'm so there!

So, for anyone else who loves that sort of thing and who's also on GoodReads, I've started a new group called Arrangement and Description: Archivists at Large. Step on over and join if you're interested!

Comments

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to get round to Ficciones.

[delphipsmith]

It's amazing, I hope you get a chance to read it. Borges was a librarian before (and maybe after) he started writing, and it really shows in his stories -- so many of them center around books, libraries, writing.