by Alberto Manguel · Rowohlt Tb. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499229084
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«Eine Geschichte des Lesens» is Alberto Manguel's essay on reading, published by Rowohlt Tb. in paperback (428 pages, in German).
Alberto Manguel explores six thousand years of the history of reading through the reader: from clay tablets to the scroll, from the codex to the CD-ROM, and analyses how each medium conditions the experience of reading. The act of reading is shown as seduction, rebellion and obsession, and as a dialogue between the written word and the one who actualises it.
The original work, «A History of Reading» (1996), received the Prix Médicis essai in 1998. This German edition was published in 2000.
For German-speaking readers interested in the history of the book, reading and written culture.
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."
