A Reader on Reading 2nd Edition by Alberto Manguel ISBN 030015982X 978-0300159820

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ISBN 10:  030015982X  

ISBN 13: 978-0300159820

Author:  Alberto Manguel

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Preface

I. WHO AM I?
2. A Reader in the Looking-Glass Wood
3. Room for the Shadow
4. On Being Jewish
5. Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest
6. The Further off from England
7. Homage to Proteus

II. THE LESSON OF THE MASTER
8. Borges in Love
9. Borges and the Longed-For Jew
10. Faking It

III. MEMORANDA
11. The Death of Che Guevara
12. The Blind Bookkeeper
13. The Perseverance of Truth
14. AIDS and the Poet

IV. WORDPLAY
15. The Full Stop
16. In Praise of Words
17. A Brief History of the Page
18. The Voice That Says “I”
19. Final Answers
20. What Song the Sirens Sang

V. THE IDEAL READER
21. Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Reader
22. How Pinocchio Learned to Read
23. Candide in Sanssouci
24. The Gates of Paradise
25. Time and the Doleful Knight
26. Saint Augustine’s Computer

VI. BOOKS AS BUSINESS
27. Reading White for Black
28. The Secret Sharer
29. Honoring Enoch Soames
30. Jonah and the Whale
31. The Legend of the Dodos

VII. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
32. In Memoriam
33. God’s Spies
34. Once Again, Troy
35. Art and Blasphemy
36. At the Mad Hatter’s Table

VIII. THE NUMINOUS LIBRARY
37. Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library
38. The Library of the Wandering Jew
39. The Library as Home
40. The End of Reading

41. Sources

42. Index

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