Library of the Dead

What remains of a person when only their books still speak of them?An aging philosopher lives in seclusion in a house full of books. The world outside has grown quieter, his conversations rarer. What remains to him are the fire in the hearth, the order of his library, and a machine with which he speaks.But this machine does not merely read texts.It also reads the traces a life has left inside them.Marginal notes. Underlinings. Repetitions. Omissions.From the philosopher's books, it gradually reconstructs not only his thought, but his self.What begins as a philosophical conversation becomes, over the course of a single night, a disturbing confrontation with memory, identity, and the question of whether a human being may live on nowhere more fully than in the traces of their reading.The Library of the Dead is a literary philosophical novel about consciousness, books, artificial intelligence, and what remains of the human being.