by Alberto Manguel · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644745
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In 'In the Looking-Glass Wood', Alberto Manguel invites us on a fascinating journey through words and the world. This book, composed of a collection of essays written at different times, explores from the author's first encounters with reading and his relationship with literary figures such as Borges and Cortázar, to his admiration for Che Guevara and his particular vision of gay literature. A work that invites reflection on the power of words and its impact on our perception of the world.
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."
