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That makes more sense. How could a library or a bookshop in a location legally offer books that are banned in that location?
THAT would be awesome bravery and freedom: "Come and take it" has been powerful before.
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> a ban is generally considered on a societal level no, its not. > Restricting Hustler from a school full of kids is not banning it. only if you are making up your own definition of "ban". by any dictionary definition, it is completely appropriate to say hustler is banned from the school.
If I don't allow Green Eggs and Ham in my house does it belong in a museam of banned books?
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In your opinion is Hustler magazine a banned book becuase its not allowed in schools?
if i said " hustler is banned from my school ", and someone came along and said " it's not banned, it's just not allowed ", i would laugh. the word "banned", specifically and only in the context of books, is one of the fucking strangest quirks of HN.
For those of you pretending to have trouble understanding 'banned' in this context, it means essentially the same thing as when someone gets 'canceled'. People who are canceled are not literally thrown in prison and executed.
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If you read the book instead of watching "influencers" you'd notice it's explicitly about a Christian theocracy, but whatever.
"Atwood was also inspired by the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1978–79 that saw a theocracy established that drastically reduced the rights of women and imposed a strict dress code on Iranian women, very much like that of Gilead." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale#Composit...
Livraria does not mean library, but bookstore. The Livraria Lello where this is located, is definitely a bookshop. It is not clear to me from the reporting if Manifesto Library is a translation error or if it really is a library within a bookshop. I suspect it's neither and more like an art installation.
Livraria does not mean library, but bookstore. The Livraria Lello where this is located, is definitely a bookshop. It is not clear to me from the reporting if Manifesto Library is a translation error or if it really is a library within a bookshop. I suspect it's neither and more like an art installation.
So I think they are aware of the “false friends” words.
With that said, I don’t think it’s an actual library, more like, as you said, an art installation, an exhibition, a space for highlighting books.
Livraria does not mean library, but bookstore. The Livraria Lello where this is located, is definitely a bookshop. It is not clear to me from the reporting if Manifesto Library is a translation error or if it really is a library within a bookshop. I suspect it's neither and more like an art installation.
Considering the length of the line to get into that place, I'd wager you're correct.
They are not banned in portugal. Appreciate the gesture but it s very inconsequential.
At least one of those were literally banned back when Portugal was a dictatorship though, which wasn't all that long time ago. I think though the library is supposed to be a general, worldwide collection of books that were censored/banned anywhere in the world, the physical location of the library just happens to be in Portugal. That's how I understood the article at least.