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by Alberto Manguel · Alianza · tapa blanda · 496 pages
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En 'Una historia de la lectura', Alberto Manguel nos invita a un recorrido fascinante a través de 6.000 años de palabra escrita. Con un enfoque lúdico y erudito, Manguel explora la evolución de la lectura desde las tablillas de arcilla hasta los formatos digitales, deteniéndose en lectores y experiencias de todas las épocas. Este libro es una mezcla deliciosa de historia, anécdotas, memoria y fantasía, que atrapará a cualquier amante de los libros y la lectura.
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."
