Editing Book burning (section)

==Book burnings in popular culture==
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[[File:Escrutinio cura barbero.jpg|thumb|1741 woodcut illustrating the examination and burning of Don Quixote's library|alt=Three men look at books. A man lies in a bed under a hanging suit of armor. A woman burns books in the yard.]]
* In [[Don Quixote#Destruction of Don Quixote's library (Chapters 6–7)|chapters 6 and 7 of the first part of ''Don Quixote'']],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cervantes |first=Miguel de |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Quixote/Volume_1/Chapter_VI |title=Don Quixote |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331172110/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Quixote/Volume_1/Chapter_VI |url-status=live}}</ref> the titular character's parish priest, relatives, and friends examine his library, full with [[chivalry romance]]s and other books, and decide to burn most of them and seal the room. The comments of the priest allow [[Miguel de Cervantes|author Cervantes]] to praise or condemn the books, while subtly satirizing the [[Spanish Inquisition]].<ref name="Romera">{{cite journal |last1=Romera |first1=Ángel |editor1-last=Aguirre |editor1-first=Joaquín María |title=Escrutinio de donosos escrutinios. Estela de los bibliocaustos generados por un capítulo de Don Quijote |journal=Espéculo |date=March 2005 |issue=29 |url=https://webs.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero29/escrutin.html |access-date=30 September 2021 |publisher=Universidad Complutense |location=Madrid |language=es |archive-date=21 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121081830/http://webs.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero29/escrutin.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Peña">{{cite journal |last1=Peña |first1=Manuel |title=El "donoso y grande escrutinio" o las caras de la censura |journal=Hispania |date=2005-12-30 |volume=65 |issue=221 |pages=939–955 |doi=10.3989/hispania.2005.v65.i221 |url=http://hispania.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispania/article/viewFile/127/129 |access-date=30 September 2021 |trans-title=The "diverting and important scrutiny" or the faces of censorship |publisher=CSIC |language=es |archive-date=23 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023160515/http://hispania.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispania/article/viewFile/127/129 |url-status=live |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*In his 1821 play, ''Almansor'', the German writer [[Heinrich Heine]] – referring to the burning of the [[Muslim]] holy book, the [[Qur'an]], during the [[Spanish Inquisition]] – wrote, "Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn people." ("''Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.''") Over a century later, Heine's own books were among the thousands of [[List of book-burning incidents#Jewish, anti-Nazi and "degenerate" books (by the Nazis)|volumes that were torched]] by the [[Nazism|Nazis]] in Berlin's [[Bebelplatz|Opernplatz]], even while his poem "Die Lorelei" continued to be printed in German schoolbooks as "by an unknown author".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/10/book-burning-quran-history-nazis|title=Book-burning: fanning the flames of hatred|last=Henley|first=Jon|date=10 September 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 December 2012|archive-date=1 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301092101/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/10/book-burning-quran-history-nazis|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Polastron|2007|pp=53,190}} 
* Book burning played a small part in [[Jules Verne]]'s 1864 ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]''. After Professor Lidenbrock deciphers a writing of Arne Saknussem and attempts to recreate his purported subterranean journey, his nephew Axel protests that they should study more of his works before making any rash decisions. Professor Lidenbrock explains that this is impossible: Saknussem was out of favor in his native country, whose leaders ordered all of his writings burned after his death.
* In [[Ray Bradbury]]'s 1953 novel ''[[Fahrenheit 451]],'' about a culture which has outlawed books due to its disdain for learning, books are burned along with the houses they are hidden in.<ref name="smithsonian" /><ref name="Romera"/>
* In the 1984 film ''[[Footloose]]'' book burning is a theme that in 2023 was linked to the [[Banned Books Week]].<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/footloose-screenwriter-movies-book-burn-ban-lgbtq-black-222132819.html |work= [[Yahoo]] |title= 'Footloose' screenwriter says movie's book-burning scene was 'rewriting the status quo.' Nearly 4 decades later, he's 'still waiting for the climate to change.' |first= David |last= Artavia |date= 2023-10-03 |access-date=2024-10-27}}</ref>