The Library of the Dead

What remains of a person when only their books still speak of them? An aging philosopher lives in seclusion in a house full of books. The world outside has grown quieter, his conversations rarer. What remains to him are the fire in the hearth, the order of his library, and a machine with which he speaks. But this machine does not merely read texts. It also reads the traces a life has left inside them. Marginal notes. Underlinings. Repetitions. Omissions. From the philosopher‘s books, it gradually reconstructs not only his thought, but his self. What begins as a philosophical conversation becomes, over the course of a single night, a disturbing confrontation with memory, identity, and the question of whether a human being may live on nowhere more fully than in the traces of their reading. The Library of the Dead is a literary philosophical novel about consciousness, books, artificial intelligence, and what remains of the human being.