Biblioteca familiar

What kind of book begins by stating that someone has been sleeping inside a library for three years? Precisely one titled "Biblioteca familiar". Neither novel, short story collection, essay, nor memoir—but rather a blend of all these—this book wanders through public libraries and private collections, exploring the reading obsessions of writers such as Kafka, Borges, Flaubert, and Levrero, all while championing forgotten works and lost authors. For a library is also a map formed by the traces and scratches left by the person who inhabits it.