by Alberto Manguel · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634760
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«Las puertas del paraíso» is Alberto Manguel's anthology of erotic short stories, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (504 pages, in Spanish).
The anthology brings together 35 stories by authors such as Harold Brodkey, Robert Coover, Yasunari Kawabata, Ian McEwan, Adolf Muschg and Anaïs Nin. As a whole, it reflects on how erotic literature, despite the limitations of language and censorship, finds ever bolder ways to name desire; each text offers a different key to paradise.
Originally published as Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction in 1993. Part of the El libro de bolsillo - Literatura collection from Alianza Editorial.
Ideal for those seeking a quality literary anthology on eroticism, with established authors from different narrative traditions.
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."
