by Alberto Manguel · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742780389
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«La Cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures» is Alberto Manguel's essay, published by Actes Sud in paperback (176 pages, in French).
Based on the Massey Lectures given in Toronto in 2007, Alberto Manguel reflects on the link between words, stories and the construction of society. The essay draws parallels between myths and legends and the political conflicts of today's world, arguing that creators who embrace human complexity —poets, novelists, essayists or filmmakers— show how to imagine a more open and lasting community.
Work originally published as «The City of Words» in 2007 and translated from English (Canada) by Christine Le Bœuf for this 2009 French edition.
For readers of essays and philosophy interested in the power of language and stories to shape individual and collective identity.
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."
