by Alberto Manguel · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420656670
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«Diario de lecturas» is the essay by Alberto Manguel, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Starting from the re-reading of a dozen works by authors such as Cervantes, Bioy Casares or Kipling, Alberto Manguel interweaves notes and comments on each book with travel impressions, portraits of friends and notes on everyday life, in a pleasant essay on the pleasure of reading.
Number 5992 of the El libro de bolsillo - Humanidades collection, translated from English by José Luis López Muñoz.
A book intended for readers interested in the literary essay and in reflections on the experience of reading.
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."
