Trafika Europe 11 - Swiss Delights

Short Fiction

THE ROOFLESS LIBRARY

There is a famous photograph shot in London in 1940, showing the main hall of a library whose roof collapsed during the blitz. The top of the walls looks torn, the floor is covered in debris. Atop this image lies another, overlapping it in such a way that you could easily mistake it for a photomontage: three men browse the shelves as if nothing had happened, scanning the titles on the spines of the books left miraculously intact. One pulls out a volume, the other leafs through another book’s pages, and despite the circumstances we can

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