LEADER 04285nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910786138303321 005 20230725035224.0 010 $a1-299-46387-8 010 $a0-300-16304-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300163049 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335037 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24393364 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11499676 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10898487 035 $a(PQKB)10706823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421167 035 $a(DE-B1597)486105 035 $a(OCoLC)841172128 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300163049 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421167 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687919 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477637 035 $a(OCoLC)923602820 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335037 100 $a20091021d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA reader on reading$b[electronic resource] /$fAlberto Manguel 210 $aNew Haven, [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (450 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-15982-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index. 327 $tA Reader on Reading --$tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tPart I. Who Am I? --$tA Reader in the Looking-Glass Wood --$tRoom for the Shadow --$tOn Being Jewish --$tMeanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest --$tThe Further off From England --$tHomage to Proteus --$tPart II. The Lesson of the Master --$tBorges in Love --$tBorges and the Longed-For Jew --$tFaking It --$tPart III. Memoranda --$tThe Death of Che Guevara --$tThe Blind Bookkeeper --$tThe Perseverance of Truth --$tAids and the Poet --$tPart IV. Wordplay --$tThe Full Stop --$tIn Praise of Words --$tA Brief History of the Page --$tThe Voice That Says "I" --$tFinal Answers --$tWhat Song the Sirens Sang --$tPart V. The Ideal Reader --$tNotes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Reader --$tHow Pinocchio Learned to Read --$tCandide in Sanssouci --$tThe Gates of Paradise --$tTime and the Doleful Knight --$tSaint Augustine's Computer --$tPart VI. Books as Business --$tReading White for Black --$tThe Secret Sharer --$tHonoring Enoch Soames --$tJonah and the Whale --$tThe Legend of the Dodos --$tPart VII. Crime and Punishment --$tIn Memoriam --$tGod's Spies --$tOnce Again, Troy --$tArt and Blasphemy --$tAt the Mad Hatter's Table --$tPart VIII. The Numinous Library --$tNotes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library --$tThe Library of the Wandering Jew --$tThe Library as Home --$tThe End of Reading --$tSources --$tIndex 330 $aIn this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything," writes Manguel, "landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create." Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of A Reader on Reading. The thirty-nine essays in this volume explore the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by literature, the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges, to whom Manguel read as a young man, and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies. The powers of censorship and intellectual curiosity, the art of translation, and those "numinous memory palaces we call libraries" also figure in this remarkable collection. For Manguel and his readers, words, in spite of everything, lend coherence to the world and offer us "a few safe places, as real as paper and as bracing as ink," to grant us room and board in our passage. 606 $aBooks and reading 615 0$aBooks and reading. 676 $a028/.9 700 $aManguel$b Alberto$0439280 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786138303321 996 $aA reader on reading$93786806 997 $aUNINA