出版社：Université Catholique de Louvain, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
摘要：This essay takes the reader on a tour of a select number of literary heritage sites all over Europe, starting in Duchcov in the Czech Republic, where Casanova is remembered, and ending in Walpole’s Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham near London. It discusses museums dedicated to Ibsen (Oslo), Pessoa (Lisbon), Sciascia (Racalmuto on Sicily), and Loti (Istanbul and Rochefort), as well as Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence (Istanbul). Its objective is to detect which museological strategies govern these recently opened or restructured places of literary memory, and to understand how these strategies respond to contemporary assessments of what literary heritage means and how it’s remembrance may be successfully framed and organised. The analysis of these museological realities shows that most contemporary sites of literary memory focus not on the textual heritage of the writers they celebrate, but on the evocation of their lives and of the imagined worlds featured in their works. This move beyond the text includes the evocation of the fictional existence of characters and the expansion of the museum’s reality as a building, linking it to its surrounding cityscape and landscape. And as a consequence, it has resulted in a sharper demarcation of the archival responsibilities of the museum, now relegated to separate parts of the institution where still plenty of room may be reserved for the exposition of paper works, but without invading the museum spaces used to evoke real and virtual literary lives.
