Reader on Reading

Name: Reader on Reading
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ISBN: 9780300172089

ISBN-10: 0300172087

ISBN-13: 9780300172089

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alberto Manguel

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In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything," writes Manguel, "landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create." Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence ofA Reader on Reading. The thirty-nine essays in this volume explore the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 6/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.902



Preface



Who Am I?


A Reader in the Looking-Glass Wood


Room for the Shadow


On Being Jewish


Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest


The Further off from England


Homage to Proteus



The Lesson Of The Master


Borges in Love


Borges and the Longed-For Jew


Faking It



Memoranda


The Death of Che Guevara


The Blind Bookkeeper


The Perseverance of Truth


AIDS and the Poet



Wordplay


The Full Stop


In Praise of Words


A Brief History of the Page


The Voice That Says "I"


Final Answers


What Song the Sirens Sang



The Ideal Reader


NotesTowards a Definition of the Ideal Reader


How Pinocchio Learned to Read


Candide in Sanssouci


The Gates of Paradise


Time and the Doleful Knight


Saint Augustine's Computer



Books As Business


Reading White for Black


The Secret Sharer


Honoring Enoch Soames


Jonah and the Whale


The Legend of the Dodos



Crime And Punishment


In Memoriam


God's Spies


Once Again, Troy


Art and Blasphemy


At the Mad Hatter's Table



The Numinous Library


Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library


The Library of the Wandering Jew


The Library as Home


The End of Reading


Sources


Index