Alberto Manguel

Nació 1948

De Buenos Aires, Argentina · Nacionalidad: Canada, Argentina · Escribe no ficción

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“I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing themselves in a silently respectful dialogue. Since I could bare lines into living reality, I was all powerful. I could read.”
A History of Reading, p. 6En inglés
“We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.”
A History of Reading, p. 7En inglés
“I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.”
A History of Reading, p. 19En inglés
“I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.”
A History of Reading, p. 125En inglés
“The shelves of books we haven’t written, like those of books we haven’t read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library’s farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.”
A History of Reading, p. 309En inglés

Los libros de Alberto Manguel en orden

Los libros de Alberto Manguel en el orden en que se publicaron, de Breve guía de lugares imaginarios (1980) a Packing My Library (2018).