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A reader on reading /
"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 M...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Borges in love
- Borges and the longed-for Jew
- Faking it
- The death of Che Guevara
- The blind bookkeeper
- The perseverance of truth
- AIDS and the poet
- 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
- Notes towards 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
- Reading white for black
- The secret sharer
- Honoring Enoch Soames
- Jonah and the whale
- The legend of the dodos
- In memoriam
- God's spies
- Once again, Troy
- Art and blasphemy
- At the mad hatter's table
- Notes towards a definition of the ideal library
- The library of the wandering Jew
- The library as home
- The end of reading.