by Alberto Manguel · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742715435
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«Une histoire de la lecture» is Alberto Manguel's essay on the history of reading, published by Actes Sud in paperback (432 pages, in French).
An erudite and personal journey through the history of reading: Manguel evokes the first readers, the role of the book in different eras, and the relationship between reader and text, culminating in the digital age. With anecdotes, quotations, and reflections, it celebrates the act of reading as a transformative experience.
The translation from English is by Christine Le Bœuf, and the French edition dates from 1998.
For curious readers and book lovers who want to explore the history of reading as a cultural practice.
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."
