by Alberto Manguel · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420647623
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«La biblioteca de noche» is Alberto Manguel's essay, published by Alianza in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Alberto Manguel reflects on libraries as spaces that treasure knowledge and imagination, and on the human desire to collect books. With an erudite and emotive gaze, he traverses real and mythical libraries and celebrates the pleasure of getting lost among shelves and discovering unexpected readings, without being a chronological history or a technical manual.
First edition published in 2007 in the Alianza Literaria (AL) collection; translation by Carmen Criado.
Non-fiction work aimed at a general audience, especially readers interested in books and libraries.
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."
