bibliomaniac

Related to bibliomaniac: Bibliophiles

bibliomaniac

A person with a morbid preoccupation with reading or acquiring books.

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8) Despite his passion for reading, however, Corso does not fetishize books themselves, like the bibliomaniac Fargas, who "[l]es hablaba, [y] acariciaba sus lomos entre juramentos de lealtad" (191), or the nefarious Borja, who regards the material book as the very conduit to Satan.

Detectives, mad bookmen, and the devil's disciples: a reading of El Club Dumas, La Novena Puerta of Arturo Perez-Reverte

Five illustration-rich chapters devoted to the individual trajectories of Flaubert, Stendhal, Nerval, d'Aurevilly and France posit manifestations of bibliophilia and bibliomania, successfully reinforcing Desormeaux's hypothesis that the once marginalized figure of the bibliomaniac is, for the nineteenth-century imagination as well as its novelistic fabrications and practices, far from marginal.

La Figure du bibliomane: Histoire du livre et strategie litteraire au XIXe siecle

Among bibliomaniacs, as Norman Weiner writes, "it is not surprising to find [.

Taking the words right out of his mouth: from ventriloquism to symbol-reading in J.-K. Huysmans

Small wonder, then, that madhouses had their bibliomaniacs, surrounded by books, reading obsessively.

Reading is bad for your health

Mineral-book collectors of today are generally not yet inclined to split hairs over the fine distinctions that fascinate and sometimes dominate the lives of those bibliophiles known lovingly as bibliomaniacs.

Collecting mineral books: an introduction

Serendipity' was to be used almost only by bibliomaniacs till the 1930s.

Anatomy of the unsought finding. Serendipity: origin, history, domains, traditions, appearances, patterns and programmability

I'd come across the hatred of libraries before in reading about bibliomaniacs (in the library, of course).

The book thief: a true tale of bibliomania

I love to read about bibliomaniacs as much as I enjoy being one.

Have you read? Readers recommend their favorite books

In the same vein, bibliomaniacs could increase their holdings by 500,000 without needing much more than three or four modestly-wide shelves.