Alberto Manguel

Editeur : Actes Sud Date de parution : 1998 Description : In-8, 428 pages, broché, occasion, très bon état. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplémentaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Réponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. …

Couverture illustrée.Illustrations in texte. Traduit de l'américain. Babel N°937. Actes Sud 2009.

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.

Ayant choisi de relire, une année durant, ses livres de prédilection tels qu'ils lui semblent refléter le chaos du monde contemporain, Alberto Manguel offre ici, entre carnet intime et recueil de citations, un journal dont l'érudition subversive rend à merveille compte de l'infini du "dialogue" entre toute oeuvre et …

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 …