Hervé S.'s photos with the keyword: colloque

Interstellar? Borges? Eco?

15 Jul 2021 12 3 187
This is the French IMEC library, an institute where people can donate one's archives, located in the authentic (and remote) abbaye of Ardenne, Normandie. Inside the main abbey building lies a grafted structure, all wood and glass, fully separated from the ancient arches, which hosts zillion of books and archives in a mega-futuristic library where among others from one floor you can see both the upper and lower galleries (and visitors) trough the glass ceiling, in a surrealistic way. (see the PIPs!) To me this reminded memories from Borges Babel's library, or perhaps, the medieval 'Il nome della rosa' from Unberto Eco! But when I told this to the postdoc student besides me, in a blink I understood I was some remnant from last century : ignoring these references, he replied "yes for sure this is like in Interstellar, the movie". So, now you know. If these pics remind you of Borges or Eco you are a living fossil, like me. Interstellar is the way ;-)

IMEC vue extérieure

IMEC intérieur bibliothèque

Escures, Cerisy