| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140166548 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140166545 |
| No of pages | 355 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Published Date | 01 Oct 1997 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140166548 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140166545 |
| No of pages | 355 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Published Date | 01 Oct 1997 |
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).
Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader.
Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.