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Alberto Manguel

A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor.

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008

There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence,
whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words
and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit.
Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost
libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human
achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said,
“affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a
public library.”

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Argentine-Canadian writer

Born 1948

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  • Cover of: A history of reading
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Argentine-Canadian writer

Born 1948

Subjects

Books and reading, Fiction, History, Short stories, Libraries, Literature, Literature and society, Erotic stories, Fiction, general, History and criticism, Criticism, Homer, Livres et lecture, Authors, Criticism and interpretation, Art appreciation, Death, Epic poetry, history and criticism, Essays, Fantasy fiction, Histoire, Homosexuality, Investigative reporting, Latin American fiction, Lezen

Places

Argentina, Canada, France, Algeria, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Italy, Justice of the Peace Court, Latin America, Madrid, Paris, Samoa, Samoan Islands, Tibehirine

People

Alberto Manguel, Homer, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Abner Snopes, Achilles, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), Gaston-Louis Vuitton (1883-1970), Helen of Troy, Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-), Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Michaelangelo, Mr. Harris, Penelope, Rodolfo J. Walsh, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Sartoris Snopes, Ulysses

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1993-

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Alternative names

  • MANGUEL,ALBERTO
  • manguel-alberto
  • Alberto (editor) Manguel

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