알베르토 망구엘

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to …

밤의 도서관은 알베르토 망구엘이 쓴 도서관의 역사와 함께 도서관에 담긴 철학을 다룬 책이다. 망구엘은 신화ㆍ정리ㆍ공간ㆍ힘ㆍ그림자ㆍ형상ㆍ우연ㆍ일터ㆍ정신ㆍ섬ㆍ생존ㆍ망각ㆍ상상ㆍ정체성ㆍ집이라는, 도서관을 떠올리면 연상되는 열다섯 가지 주제를 통해 도서관의 역사와 재미있는 일화를 낭만적으로 …

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a book written by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature—"a Baedecker or traveller's guide...a nineteenth-century gazetteer" for mental travelling.

While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's Elective Affinities) seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living. An article in the daily paper would suddenly be illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a …

Alberto Manguel has enchanted hundreds of thousands of readers with his bestselling books, including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Now he has assembled a personal collection of his own essays that will enchant anyone interested in reading, writing, or the world. Through personal stories and literary reflections, …

“This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges’s magical worlds.”—Mahmoud Darwish “Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.”—Scotland on Sunday“His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.”—The Toronto StarWinner of the 2003 Prix du livre en …