Reader on Reading

Informationen zum Autor Alberto Manguel is one of the world's great readers. He is a member of PEN! a Guggenheim Fellow! and an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes! including the Prix Medicis in essays for A History of Reading! and the McKitterick Prize for his novel News from a Foreign Country Came. Among his most recent books is The Library at Night! also published by Yale University Press. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Klappentext A major collection of essays which explore the crafts of reading and writing! the identity granted to us by literature! the far-reaching shadow of Borges and the links between politics and books! and between books and our bodies. 'Books jump out of their jackets when Manguel opens them! and dance in delight as they make contact with his ingenious! voluminous brain' Peter Conrad! "Observer" Zusammenfassung Argues that the activity of reading! in its broadest sense! defines our species. This title explores the crafts of reading and writing! the identity granted to us by literature! the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges! to whom the author read as a young man! and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Manguel, Manguel Alberto
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780300172089
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17208-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies