Collection of sand: essays

Collection of sand

How new the new world was

The traveller in the map

The museum of wax monsters

The dragon tradition

Before the alphabet

The wonders of the popular press

A novel inside a painting

Say it with knots

Writers who draw

In memory of Roland Barthes

Day-flies in the fortress

The pig and the archaeologist

The narrative of Trajan's column

The written city: inscriptions and graffiti

Thinking the city: the measure of spaces

The redemption of objects

Light in our eyes

The adventures of three clockmakers and three automata

Fairy geography

The archipelago of imaginary places

Stamps from states of mind

The encyclopedia of a visionary

Japan

The old woman in the purple kimono

The obverse of the sublime

The wooden temple

The thousand gardens

The moon chasing the moon

The sword and the leaves

The pinballs of solitude

Eros and discontinuity

The ninety-ninth tree

Mexico

The shape of the tree

Time and brances

The forest and the gods

Iran

The mihrab

The flames within the flames

The sculptures and the nomads.