by Alberto Manguel · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002550062
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«A History of Reading» is Alberto Manguel's essay on the history of reading, published by Viking in hardback (372 pages, in English).
From the moment the signs on a page acquire meaning, Alberto Manguel traces the history of the reader from clay tablets to the CD-ROM. He addresses reading as seduction, rebellion and obsession; the age-old conversation between words and those who decipher them; and reading aloud, memory and the evolution of the book.
«A History of Reading», originally published in 1996, won the Prix Médicis essai in 1998 and includes bibliographic references and an index.
Non-fiction work for general readers interested in the history of the book, reading and literary criticism.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
