What is the difference between a book and an open book? The open book is the encounter with parts of ourselves that we had forgotten or that we still do not know.

Massimo Recalcati talks about his encounter with Sartre's Nausea, Homer's Odyssey, Lacan's Writings, Dante's Divine Comedy, and all the books he loved because they mingled with his own language, because he did not just read them but was read by them. And so he presents through his experiential readings the way in which a book reassembles our identity, opening up a gateway to life.

Because books are never just books.