Libraries of the mind: The concept of the invisible library ; A scholar's brain ; The immateriality of works ; The evolution of libraries from oral tradition to written text ; The universality of invisible libraries ; The mental genesis of libraries ; Definitions ; How literature becomes present in the mind ; Literature and the blurring of fact and fiction ; The books we have not read ; Mental shelves ; The imaginary of scrolls ; The Dewey Decimal Classification ; Allegorical classifications ; The irreducible bias of numerical classification ; Should we stop classifying? ; Failure of the ideal order ; A mental journey through Wikipedia ; A funeral eulogy for the catalog room ; What are catalogs thinking about? ; The mysteries of call numbers ; The catalog as a sedimentation of knowledge ; Journey into an ancient library ; Preliterature and literature ; Every reader is a serial reader
Dark matter of literature: First type of dark matter : the lost works ; Second type of dark matter : works from which fragments have survived ; Third type of dark matter : the transformed works ; Fourth type of dark matter : the unrealized works ; Fifth type of dark matter : the neglected works ; How to find dark matter? ; The genealogical method ; The indirect method ; Recovering the lost Greek tragedies ; Making the invisible visible
World library: The painter and the crab ; Why a gamecock became a crab ; The rise of world literature ; Going beyond world literature ; Living in the world library ; The epistemological value of shock.