Alberto Manguel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1357405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Manguel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Manguel |
| SIGNATURE | MANGUEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Real Academia Española |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
L’invention de l’Europe par les langues et les cultures (chaire annuelle 2021-2022)
International audience
A Vital Institution Missing in the Grand Plans for Gaza
This essay explores the critical omission of the Palestinian National Library in the ambitious reconstruction plans for Gaza proposed by Arab leaders and international stakeholders.It highlights how, amid urgent needs for infrastructure, housing, and security, the role of cultural institutions -particularly national libraries -has been largely overlooked.The essay argues that national libraries are not merely repositories of books but serve as vi…
Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography
A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey —with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Tro…
The Imaginary North
A Reader on Reading
In 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…
Reader on Reading
The Library at Night
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide o…
The New Praise of Folly
When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us. I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the re…
The City of Words
What is the role of the storyteller in 21st Century society? Do stories possess the power to change the world we live in? In this most original and stimulating study Alberto Manguel, award winning author of A History of Reading, sets out to investigate the ways in which stories can lend an identity to a whole society. From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don Quixote to The Fast Runner, Manguel explores how books can hold the secret to what binds us …
Una historia de la lectura
Uma história da leitura
Uma história da leitura
Una historia de la lectura
The City of Words
What is the role of the storyteller in 21st Century society? Do stories possess the power to change the world we live in? In this most original and stimulating study Alberto Manguel, award winning author of A History of Reading, sets out to investigate the ways in which stories can lend an identity to a whole society. From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don Quixote to The Fast Runner, Manguel explores how books can hold the secret to what binds us …
The New Praise of Folly
When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us. I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the re…
Reader on Reading
The Library at Night
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide o…
A Reader on Reading
In 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…
The Imaginary North
Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography
A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey —with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Tro…
A Vital Institution Missing in the Grand Plans for Gaza
This essay explores the critical omission of the Palestinian National Library in the ambitious reconstruction plans for Gaza proposed by Arab leaders and international stakeholders.It highlights how, amid urgent needs for infrastructure, housing, and security, the role of cultural institutions -particularly national libraries -has been largely overlooked.The essay argues that national libraries are not merely repositories of books but serve as vi…
L’invention de l’Europe par les langues et les cultures (chaire annuelle 2021-2022)
International audience
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · books and reading (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)