Brief notes about the book and the reader

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to state brief observations about the relationships between book/text and reader. To this end, borrowed from a varied corpus, some theoretical-methodological proposals will be visited on these two figures that meet in a reading situation and, laterally, some notes will be enunciated, some notes will be presented, based mainly in Michel Butor’s views on the object-book, which transgresses visual and textual conventions - book-object that, for this very reason, as it will be seen with regard  to those by the poets Philippe Wolney and Tadeu Renato, establishes a new relationship with the reader and that invites different reading modes from those mobilized by the conventional book. Finally, thanks to a theoretical excursus, the conflict between bibliophily and “bibliofolia” will be discussed, based on very brief considerations about a poem by the Frenchman Jacques Prévert.