Le bouquiniste Mendel – de Stefan Zweig

In early-century Vienna, there is not a single bibliophile who does not know Jakob Mendel, a living catalogue of all printed knowledge. A monomaniac blessed with a prodigious memory and terribly inept in business, he is afflicted with a bibliographic bulimia that makes him an invaluable man. But war will plunge this pacifist into cruel violence and despairing absurdity.

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