by Alberto Manguel · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420642925
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«Una historia de la lectura» is Alberto Manguel's essay on the act of reading, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Alberto Manguel traverses six thousand years of written word to vindicate the figure of the reader, traditionally overlooked in the history of literature. From Sumerian tablets to the CD-ROM, he combines classical studies, psychology, history, memoirs, and anecdotes of readers such as Saint Ambrose, Diderot, Colette, or Borges.
First edition published in 1998, translated by José Luis López Muñoz; belongs to the Libros Singulares (LS) collection.
For readers interested in the history of literature and the role of the reader over time.
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."
