Abstract

Reflections on changes, which the book has been exposed to due to the digital revolution, oscillate between a substantialist seriousness of concern and commitment and an ironic lack of seriousness. Based on the eras of book creation and the media, two conceptual figures demonstrate the possible alternatives to replace what Victor Hugo has labeled the killing of the book and Georg Friedrich Knapp the so-called recurrent extension, which includes metaphoric variants and verbal ones.