by Alberto Manguel · Fischer S. Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783100487513
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«Tagebuch eines Lesers» is Alberto Manguel's reading diary, published by Fischer S. Verlag GmbH in hardcover (231 pages, in German).
Over the course of a year, Alberto Manguel rereads some of his favorite books and records in this diary the impressions they awaken, along with everyday experiences, travels and memories. Authors such as Cervantes, Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells and Bioy Casares serve as a starting point for reflections on reading, memory and life.
The original title of the work is 'A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books', originally published in 2004.
For readers who enjoy books about books, literary criticism and personal diaries.
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."
