Contributions by Victoria Liendo
Victoria Liendo is a Literature graduate from the University of Buenos Aires. In 2007 she moved to Paris to study French for three months, and remains there to this day. She completed a Masters in Literature and Literary Theory in the University of Paris 8, where she is now writing her doctoral thesis on the construction of the self in Victoria Ocampo and Witold Gombrowicz. She speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian. This fourth language inspired her, and she believed that Polish was going to be like English… but this is proving not to be the case.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Victoria Liendo
translated by Victoria Lampard
To Charles Coustille,
guilty of making me love France,
he who declares himself innocent of everything.
Libraries very much resemble churches: there are some that can make you feel even closer to God. There are so many libraries in Paris that it’s hard to decide which to visit on a daily basis. There’s your neighborhood library, your university library, your country’s library, the Scandinavian countries’ libraries—more modern—the Grandes Écoles, the famous ones like Saint-Geneviève, the cool ones like Beaubourg, and then there is the official, unquestioned Cathedral of French Wisdom, immense, solemn, silent: the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Against all expectations, the lofty, serious BnF is the only place in which someone as restless as myself is able to sit down and study.
Before the main branch of the library was at Richelieu, near the Opera and the … Read More »
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