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A History of Reading
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Pages: 372 pages
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780002550062
Format: tapa dura
Language: en
Release date: 8/7/1996
ISBN: 9780002550062
Synopsis of A History of Reading
En 'Una historia de la lectura', Alberto Manguel explora la conversación de 6000 años entre las palabras y el lector. Desde las primeras tablillas de arcilla hasta el CD-ROM, Manguel examina la lectura como seducción, rebelión y obsesión. Este libro traza la historia del lector y los materiales, símbolos, influencias y contextos del libro.
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Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
Born in 1948Since 1980249 titles published46 writing
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