by Alberto Manguel · BRUGUERA (SELLO) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402420046
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«El amante extremadamente puntilloso» is the short novel by Alberto Manguel, published by Bruguera in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist is Anatole Vasanpeine, a fictional character from early 20th-century Poitiers, presented as a pioneer of photography and a genius of erotic minimalism. His gaze does not fix on whole things, but on the small details of an anonymous, close-knit world marked by tragedy.
2006 edition. Translated from the English by Eduardo Hojman; the original title is The Overdiscriminating Lover.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy short novels and the narrative of Alberto Manguel.
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."
