books about books?`

[Anne Fisher]

Hello SEELANGers,
Another listserv I'm on has compiled a list of books about books - not
scholarship on book history/bibliography/textology/etc., but fiction and
historical fiction about books, printing, rare editions, etc. And memoirs,
but think Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran," not Smirnov-Sokol'skii's
"Rasskazy o knigakh."

I heard the familiar names - Eco, Calvino, Borges - and many new ones,
including the authors of popular fiction: mysteries, Dan Brown-esque
"thrillers," etc.

Not one Russian name in the bunch. "Pale Fire" came immediately to mind, but
it's so meta it's arguably a different category. Other than that I drew a
blank.

Can anyone suggest Russian fiction (historical fiction, popular fiction)
about books? I can't believe the "samyi chitaiushchii narod v mire" would
let me down on this...

Thank you,

Annie

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