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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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  • Cover of: A history of reading

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Born 1948

Subjects

Books and reading, Fiction, History, Short stories, Libraries, Erotic stories, Fiction, general, Literature, Literature and society, History and criticism, Homer, Authors, Livres et lecture, Art appreciation, Criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Death, Epic poetry, history and criticism, Fantasy fiction, Homosexuality, Investigative reporting, Latin American fiction, Madrid (spain), fiction, Parent and child, Truthfulness and falsehood

Places

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

People

Alberto Manguel, Homer, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Abner Snopes, Achilles, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Helen of Troy, Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-), Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Michaelangelo, Mr. Harris, Penelope, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Sartoris Snopes, Ulysses

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1993-

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December 24, 2021 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternatives names
December 24, 2021 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
January 6, 2020 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import