A reader on reading / Alberto Manguel
- Bib ID:
- 4838657
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Manguel, Alberto
- Description:
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- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010
- xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780300159820
- 030015982X
- Full contents:
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- A reader in the looking-glass wood
- Room for the shadow
- On being Jewish
- Meanwhile, in another part of the forest
- The further off from England
- Homage to Proteus
- Borges in love
- Borges and the longed-for Jew
- Faking it
- The death of Che Guevara
- The blind bookkeeper
- The perseverance of truth
- AIDS and the poet
- The full stop
- In praise of words
- A brief history of the page
- The voice that says "I"
- Final answers
- What song the sirens sang
- Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader
- How Pinocchio learned to read
- Candide in Sanssouci
- The gates of paradise
- Time and the doleful knight
- Saint Augustine's computer
- Reading white for black
- The secret sharer
- Honoring Enoch Soames
- Jonah and the whale
- The legend of the dodos
- In memoriam
- God's spies
- Once again, Troy
- Art and blasphemy
- At the mad hatter's table
- Notes towards a definition of the ideal library
- The library of the wandering Jew
- The library as home
- The end of reading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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