by Alberto Manguel · Grupo Anaya, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491042327
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«Todos los hombres son mentirosos» is a novel by Alberto Manguel published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
After the death of South American writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, who fled the Argentine dictatorship and fell from a balcony in Madrid upon publishing «Elogio de la mentira», a writer friend, his lover, and a former prison companion offer testimonies that reconstruct his past. The novel explores memory, truth, and appearances.
The work belongs to the 13/20 collection from Alianza Editorial. The first edition was published in November 2015.
A read for those interested in Latin American narrative and novels that play with memory, mystery, and versions of the same event.
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."
