by Alberto Manguel · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742731794
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«Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires» is the dictionary of fictional places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, published by Actes Sud in paperback.
Alphabetical catalogue of territories, cities and sites invented by world literature, from Abaton to Zuy. For each place it describes location, topography, climate, fauna, government, customs and curiosities, with maps and plans. Written with humor and erudition, it invites readers to rediscover the works and authors who created those worlds.
French edition of 665 pages. Babel collection (no. 471), with translation by Patrick Reumaux and Michel-Claude Touchard. The original work appeared in 1980; this edition is from 2001.
Intended for readers curious about the fictional worlds of literature and for those who enjoy discovering authors through those places.
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."
