Published by Filigranes Éditions in 2011, “Les Désordres de la bibliothèque” is a collaborative artist book between writer Muriel Pic and artist Jean-Christophe Prigent. The work explores the concept of the library as a space of creative entropy rather than rigid order. Through a montage of texts and images, the authors delve into the “disorders” of memory and the accidental poetry found in the accumulation of books and archival fragments. Pic’s writing, influenced by W.G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin, reflects on the melancholy and wonder of the collector’s world. The book serves as a tactile and intellectual journey through the labyrinth of the archive, questioning how we classify knowledge and what is lost in the gaps between the shelves.