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Alberto Manguel
Author · 40 books

Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.

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بهجة القراءة book cover

بهجة القراءة

2013

Hayali Yerlerden Yemek Tarifleri book cover

Hayali Yerlerden Yemek Tarifleri

2021

Curiosity book cover

Curiosity

2015

Bibliotecas book cover

Bibliotecas

2011

القراءة في زمن الاضطراب book cover

القراءة في زمن الاضطراب

مقالات في الكتابة والمعنى

2025

حياة متخيلة book cover

حياة متخيلة

2026

City of Words book cover

City of Words

2007

Into The Looking-Glass Wood book cover

Into The Looking-Glass Wood

Essays on Words and the World

1998

Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey book cover

Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey

A Biography

2007

Para cada tiempo hay un libro book cover

Para cada tiempo hay un libro

2014

Reading Pictures

A History of Love and Hate

1705

Tanpınar'ın İzinde Beş Şehir - Ankara, İstanbul, Erzurum, Konya, Bursa book cover

Tanpınar'ın İzinde Beş Şehir - Ankara, İstanbul, Erzurum, Konya, Bursa

2016

Stevenson Under The Palm Trees book cover

Stevenson Under The Palm Trees

2000

Story of a Nation book cover

Story of a Nation

Defining Moments in our History

2001

Magic Land of Toys book cover

Magic Land of Toys

2006

Guia de Um Perplexo em Portugal book cover

Guia de Um Perplexo em Portugal

2022

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places book cover

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

1980

The Overdiscriminating Lover book cover

The Overdiscriminating Lover

2005

A Reading Diary book cover

A Reading Diary

2004

داخل المكتبة .. خارج العالم book cover

داخل المكتبة .. خارج العالم

2015

Packing My Library book cover

Packing My Library

An Elegy and Ten Digressions

2018

Dokumanın Arka Yüzü book cover

Dokumanın Arka Yüzü

Çeviri Sanatı Üzerine Değiniler

2023

Yabanci Bir Ulkeden Haber Geldi book cover

Yabanci Bir Ulkeden Haber Geldi

1991

جنتلمان المكتبات book cover

جنتلمان المكتبات

2021

Hayali Bir Hayat – Sieglinde Geisel ile Söyleşi book cover

Hayali Bir Hayat – Sieglinde Geisel ile Söyleşi

2021

The Library at Night book cover

The Library at Night

2006

The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar book cover

The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar

2021

Ulises'in Dönüşü book cover

Ulises'in Dönüşü

2014

Reading Pictures book cover

Reading Pictures

A History of Love and Hate

2000

The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories book cover

The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories

1990

A History of Reading book cover

A History of Reading

1996

A Reader on Reading book cover

A Reader on Reading

2010

With Borges book cover

With Borges

2002

Bride of Frankenstein book cover

Bride of Frankenstein

1997

Maimonides book cover

Maimonides

Faith in Reason

2023

عودة book cover

عودة

2005

All Men Are Liars book cover

All Men Are Liars

2008

Fabulous Monsters book cover

Fabulous Monsters

Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends

2019

The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm book cover

The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm

The Reader as Metaphor

2013

Penguin Book of Summer Stories book cover

Penguin Book of Summer Stories

2007

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