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A Reader on Reading (Paperback)
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A Reader on Reading (Paperback)
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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 "the
Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its
broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent
on finding narrative in everything," writes Manguel, "landscape,
the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our
species create." Reading our own lives and those of others, reading
the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders,
reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the
essence of A Reader on Reading. The thirty-nine essays in this
volume explore the crafts of reading and writing, the identity
granted to us by literature, the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis
Borges, to whom Manguel read as a young man, and the links between
politics and books and between books and our bodies. The powers of
censorship and intellectual curiosity, the art of translation, and
those "numinous memory palaces we call libraries" also figure in
this remarkable collection. For Manguel and his readers, words, in
spite of everything, lend coherence to the world and offer us "a
few safe places, as real as paper and as bracing as ink," to grant
us room and board in our passage.
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