Who has not dreamed of wandering freely among the author's own books bedside? To browse at ease to stroke the covers women s athletic inspired shoes and the paper with a hint of fetishism, and especially to examine them to discover a passage highlighted here, is a word. Or comments from his hand in the margins. Sometimes newspaper clippings, subway tickets, forgotten letters and small words that are full volumes. Borges had offered nearly a thousand of his people at the National Library in Buenos Aires, two of his archivists have recently had the idea to perform systematic analysis in a book about his book Borges, libros y readings. Six years ago already, Alexandra Richter, Patrick Bertrand Badiou Alac and had published The library philosophy of Paul Celan (835 pages, 35 euros, Editions de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure), catalog of about 500 pounds that the poet kept in range hand, wonder of learning technique that revealed both the laboratory to the poems that the artist's studio. Because we forget, the library of the writer is usually his office. Geneticists in the literature are well aware, they who for many years, not only to peel manuscripts, drafts and letters of the library study is fundamental, but how when it was destroyed? Just restore it, if not rebuilding …. We measure how poorly Walter Benjamin is inspiring for those who maintain a permanent relationship with books, not only by reading but by writing. His thoughts, and more the model that embodies an exercise empire of unparalleled depth that goes beyond the influence. Two books just published that show. That of Patrick Boucheron Make historical profession (197 pages, 17 euros, Publications de la Sorbonne) opens with a chapter as a tribute in which the medievalist, specializing in urban planning and architecture at the Milan fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, pays heartfelt debt to Benjamin's Arcades who both nourished his invitation to "read and reread" a city, Paris in this case, held "the great reading room of a library that crosses the Seine. " Sensitive to the fiction of sparkling antithesis, Patrick Boucheron examines a piece of Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century who continued so intensely for so long he wonders if he is not underground at the root of his vocation as a historian, he has not haunted the point of causing a short circuit in it. By dint of reading this piece, he believes now read by him. "Trace and aura. The trace is the appearance of a close, some distant that may be what was left. The aura is the occurrence of a distant, some closer than what can be evoked. With the trace, we take hold of the thing with the aura, it is she who goes mistress of us. " Another book, which also just grateful for what the German philosopher was fertilized, just published under the title Three stones to Walter Benjamin (107 pages, 16 euros, the arachnoid) in the collection "Zakhor" biblical injunction the memory, which is not indifferent. Three stones as there are three texts of three authors: the writer Pierre Michon is engaged in a meditation on language through the evocation of a butterfly, the race of a fox, the drop of a crow, the philosopher Guy and translator Petitdemange dissects the construction of a writing, that the aesthetic of the fragment when combined with an acute sensitivity to the tragedy of history, finally Tackels Bruno, a historian of contemporary theater, portrays Walter Benjamin marginal in absolute terms, urban pirate friend of prostitutes, great player and collector banging everything he has to win, a true Ibiza is still "a little bubble of utopia suspended," an intellectual thinking encrypted placed by vigilant sentinel on a volcano, his implacable lucidity condemned to an endless shift vis-à-vis society. The portrait is so finely drawn that can be easily convinced that Ibiza has been the allegorical figure of European history. By discovering these IOUs, we say that if Walter Benjamin became his admirers, it really gave good fruit. C