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by Alberto Manguel · · Tapa blanda · 366 pages
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En un instante mágico de la infancia, la página de un libro, esa cadena de cifras confusas y ajenas, se estremeció para cobrar significado. Las palabras te hablaron, revelaron sus secretos; en ese momento, se abrieron universos enteros. Te convertiste, irrevocablemente, en lector. El destacado ensayista Alberto Manguel parte de este momento esencial para explorar la conversación de 6000 años entre las palabras y ese mago sin el cual el libro sería un objeto sin vida: el lector. Manguel se detiene en la lectura como seducción, como rebelión, como obsesión, y continúa trazando la historia nunca antes contada del progreso del lector desde la tablilla de arcilla hasta el rollo, el códice hasta el CD-ROM.
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."
