Roger Chartier on the Study of Book History and its Giants
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Roger Chartier\\u200b was\\xa0born\\u200b in\\xa01945 in Lyon, \\u200bFrance. He is a giant in the field of\\xa0\\u200bbook\\u200b history\\xa0\\u200band the study of \\u200bpublishing and reading.\\u200b He teaches at the \\xc9cole des Hautes \\xc9tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Coll\\xe8ge de France, and the University of Pennsylvania.\\u200b \\u200b
I interviewed Roger via Zoom in hopes of determining exactly why he\'s a giant, who\'s shoulders he stands on, and what he has contributed to the study of book history. Among other things we talk about Roger\'s book of essays The Author\'s Hand and the Printer\'s Mind; Shakespeare and Cervantes; the importance of material texts to history; forms of reading; the codex; translation; intermediaries between the reader and the writer; the commonplace technique; Roland Barthes; reader appropriation; author intention; Marshall McLuhan; D.F. McKenzie\'s Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts;\\xa0Robert Darnton;\\xa0The History of the Book in France;\\xa0IMEC; maps in fiction;\\xa0"Sprezzatura\\u200b;" \\u200band literature and the consecration of the life and manuscripts of the writer.\\xa0
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