Auteur: Alberto Manguel

As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, adva …

A Sunday Times Best Humour Book of the Year 2017 How can you tell if your neighbour is speaking Muslim? Is a mosque a kind of hedgehog? Can I get fries with that burka? You can’t trust the media any …

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of librari …

An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called &ldquo …

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the im …

The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irrepressible critic during Argentina’s brutal years of repression Acclaimed for the gemlike perfecti …

A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one …

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel pr …

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In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A History of Reading is a brilliant reminder of why …

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In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism.The end …

One of the worlds great short-story writers emerges with a selection of stories from her past, a trove of hidden treasures.Mavis Gallant moved from Montreal to Paris in 1950 to write short stories fo …

In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr Baker …

A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous Al …

While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a …

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, ex …

Ronald Wright’s journey through Peru is simultaneously an account of the country’s proud Inca heritage and of the modern mestizo nation – its two worlds. Beginning in Cajamarca, where Spain first def …

Es posible resumir el sentido del ensayo de Alberto Manguel con las palabras del propio autor: ‘La realidad del mundo cervantino […] puede ser retratada fielmente sólo a través de aproximaciones y fr …

Este poemario de Boiero nos inquieta. ¿Quién es el narrador? ¿Quién la máquina femenina? ¿En qué lugar de las galaxias nos encontramos? ¿Cuál es la pasión amorosa que intuimos entre creador y objeto …

Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself – and not for the first time – drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes.When Kri …

«En las montañas de Holanda es una pequeña obra maestra, un cuento de hadas cuyo protagonista es la lengua, creadora de palabras, diversificadora de sentido, desentrañadora de misterios. […] El lec …

Godine 1931. Walter Benjamin napisao je kratak i danas slavan esej o odnosu čitatelja i njihovih knjiga i naslovio ga ‘Raspakiravam svoju biblioteku: besjeda o kolekcionarstvu’. Dok se u lipnju 2015. …

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Imbuida de una atmósfera mágica, de delicados elementos que prefiguran lo que ha de ser el país imaginado, esta bella historia nos traslada a una China de principios del siglo XX repleta de fantasmas …

Ob Sindbad der Seefahrer, Superman, Don Juan oder Alice im Wunderland: Literarische Heldinnen und Helden haben zahlreiche Abenteuer zu bestehen, die sie klug und welterfahren machen. Sie werden damit …

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‘Tanto quanto se pode dizer, os seres humanos são a única espécie para a qual o mundo parece composto de histórias’, escreve Alberto Manguel. Lemos o livro do mundo de muitas formas: podemos ser viaj …

Em 1964, Alberto Manguel, então com dezesseis anos, trabalhava em uma famosa livraria de Buenos Aires, onde era possível encontrar as últimas novidades publicadas na Europa e nos Estados Unidos – e o …

Depois do grande sucesso de O leitor como metáfora: o viajante, a torre e a traça, as Edições Sesc têm o prazer de lançar o novo livro inédito de Alberto Manguel, Notas para uma definição do leitor i …

Man hat ihn »König der Leser« genannt, »Don Juan der Bibliotheken«, »Monsieur Lecture«. Mit vier Jahren »entdeckte« Alberto Manguel, dass er lesen konnte, als Sechzehnjähriger war er Vorleser des erb …

Împărtășindu-ne experiențele sale de cititor, cu un stil care se remarcă prin umor fin și erudiție, Alberto Manguel susține în această excelentă culegere de eseuri că lectura, în sensul său cel mai l …

Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film”s felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by …

Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film”s felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by …

En busca de lectores -y de sus bibliotecas personales-, Javier Vargas de Luna ha recorrido la ciudad hispánica en ambos lados del Atlántico. Ha visitado todos los acentos y todas las fronteras de la …

Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and meta-tex …