by Alberto Manguel · Alianza Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788491812951
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«Monsieur Bovary y otros amigos tenaces» is Alberto Manguel's essay, published by Alianza Editorial in hardcover (136 pages, in Spanish).
Alberto Manguel brings together more than a dozen literary characters, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Count Dracula, Job or Long John Silver, to reflect on human nature. Faced with readers who age, these imaginary beings are, at once, what they were in the first reading and what new re-readings make of them.
First edition published on November 8, 2018 in the Libros Singulares (LS) collection, with illustrations by Antonio Seguí.
For readers interested in the literary essay and in reflection on the great characters of fiction.
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."
