Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Alliance
ISBN: 9788413627465
Binding: paperback
Pages: 664
Format: 18 x 12 cm
Spanish Language
With a playful spirit that will captivate any book and reading enthusiast, Alberto Manguel traces in this delightful mix of psychology, history, anecdotes, memory, fantasy, classical studies, etc., a stimulating journey through the capricious and exciting labyrinth of 6,000 years of the written word. Readers and experiences from all times and places guide us pleasantly through A History of Reading, precisely the one that Manguel has been able to articulate from his condition as an avid and intelligent reader: Saint Ambrose, one of the first to learn to read silently; Diderot, convinced of the therapeutic properties of "spicy" novels; Borges, who asked his mother, his friends, whoever was at hand to read to him; Stevenson, who did not want to learn to read so as not to deprive himself of the pleasure that his nanny's readings gave him...
