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	ALA \| C&RL, May 1997, Vol. 58, No. 3, Manguel book review
		It probably is not too soon for the ALA to begin preparing a dossier on Manguel in support of his canonization as patron saint of reading.
		Alberto Manguel is one of those rare individuals of today: learned, urbane, self-aware, democratic, and generous.
		Manguel will lead you on a delightfully idiosyncratic tour of his world—a world crowded with readers and crammed with books.
	www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues1997b/may97/manguelbookreview.htm (914 words)

	History of Literacy: BOOK REVIEW: A History of Reading
		There is also a prelude in which Manguel explains his resistance to presenting a sequential narrative account of the history of reading, and a postlude that apologizes for the non-sequential presentation and for his own laziness in not having used a more chronological and logical way to present his ideas.
		Manguel's scholarly capacity is brought into question by his disregard for order and context.
		Ironically, Manguel's reading-memoir approach is reminiscent of the introspective method used by reading researchers in the late 19th-century (which he doesn't discuss).
	www.historyliteracy.org /scripts/search_display.php?Article_ID=119 (1374 words)

	Into the Looking-Glass Wood - Alberto Manguel
		Alberto Manguel’s Into the Looking-Glass Wood is a book of essays about the act of reading, the world where we as readers name objects and try to find meaning.
		Manguel writes, "listening to Rivadavia guide us through a text, through the relationships between words and memories, ideas and experiences, encouraged me towards a lifetime of addiction to the printed page." Manguel left Argentina in 1968 and stayed abroad during the years of the military dictatorship.
		Manguel reminds us that even though we live in a society in which "greed is the driving force," society needs the "visionary rage" of its artists.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue16/entertainment/book2.html (665 words)

	The Middle Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The literary critic and essayist Alberto Manguel not only knows the work of Borges better than anyone else, he was also a close friend and ally of Borges.
		Manguel didn't know much about him, but he was a bibliophile as well, and when asked if he would read to Borges in the evenings he consented.
		Manguel would read, Borges would listen closely (he knew many of his favourite works by heart), and then make some observations of "wonderful perspicacity and wit, not only sharing with me his passion for these great writers but also showing me how they worked by taking paragraphs apart with the amorous intensity of a clockmaker".
	middlestage.blogspot.com /2006/04/alberto-manguel-with-borges.html (2234 words)

	Alberto Manguel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alberto Manguel is a writer who was born in 1948 in Buenos Aires, grew up in Israel (where his father was the Argentinian ambassador) and has resided in various countries all over the world, including 20 years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
		Later, Manguel became famous thanks to his History of Reading.
		He has also written novels and some non-fiction works, but is well-known as an editor of literary anthologies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberto_Manguel (364 words)

	Interview with Alberto Manguel
		To decipher the world around us Alberto Manguel on the history of reading By Paula E. Kirman It's four o'clock in the afternoon when the phone rings.
		Alberto Manguel is on the other end, as arranged.
		This afternoon Manguel sounds tired and somewhat distant after a hectic day, but he is also surprisingly talkative, and I never know what to expect from his erudite responses.
	www.calypsoconsulting.com /manguel.html (2253 words)

	Sine Die 0006
		Alberto Manguel concludes his Afterword to Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey with the words of the pavement artist or in Manguel's words the "wall artist".
		Manguel wants us to finish our reading at a place that is universal: "[...] does it matter where?" It does.
		Manguel paraphrases the scene by having Noble ask where the pavement artist is next going.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~lachance/sd/sd0006.htm (393 words)

	The Morning News - Alberto Manguel, by Robert Birnbaum
		And it is because of this style, which favors the spirit and, perhaps, the patience of an archaeologist, that I lost and recently (and miraculously) found this November 2001 conversation with Alberto Manguel.
		Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, was educated there, and was a friend of Jorge Luis Borges late in Borges’s life.
		Part of the pleasure to be taken in Manguel’s work (every one of his books, indeed) is in his retrieval of obscure aphorisms; the other part is his ability to give these aphorisms a context.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/birnbaum_v/alberto_manguel.php (5259 words)

	FFWD Weekly - November 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was in those early Canadian years that Manguel learned that his Argentine literature teacher had became an informant for the government, a man who was directly responsible for the disappearance and torture of countless fellow students.
		Manguel has wandered the world in search of stories and languages, making connections between various pages, and out of these bookish wanderings he has formed two enviable libraries.
		Four years ago, Alberto Manguel packed up all his books that were spread out in various storage units, in Toronto, Calgary and London, and he moved to Mondion, France.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/1118/book2.htm (1158 words)

	A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel
		Manguel has seen them, and wants you to know how exciting it is to just stand there and look at them, if they weren't destroyed by the Gulf War.
		Because Manguel happened to be wading through Albert Cim's Amateurs et Voleurs de Livres (Paris, 1903) and there it is: tales of the corpulent Libri and his astonishing thefts from the libraries of Carpentras, Dijon, Grenoble, Lyons, Orléans, etc. etc.
		In a more fortunate aside, Manguel goes from Whitman to lunch, giving us books as meals, food-for-thought, writers cooking up a story, rehashing a text, having half-baked ideas for a plot, spicing up a scene or garnishing the bare-bones of an argument...a slice of life peppered with allusions into which readers can sink their teeth...
	www.ralphmag.org /manguel.html (921 words)

	A Reading Diary (0312424450) MANGUEL - Picador
		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.
		Alberto Manguel hits the nail on the head as he shows the relationship between the reader and the books read.
		Alberto Manguel has repeatedly shown himself to be good company to spend time with and this brief book only shores up that impression further.
	www.picadorusa.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=0312424450 (601 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Books \| With Borges, by Alberto Manguel
		Like the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel's With Borges is almost perfect in its brevity (almost only because of the annoying typos and spelling mistakes).
		With Borges does not include fiction (although the conversations are based on memories of a time long past), but it does combine memoir, biography, and reflections on the works of Borges and of the writers he admired to create an intimate portrait of this enigmatic writer.
		Manguel, who is now a Canadian, encountered Borges in 1964, when the writer asked the 16-year-old bookstore clerk if he would read to him three or four evenings a week.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=2268 (326 words)

	A Reading Diary - Alberto Manguel
		Manguel riffs nicely on the books, as well as making connexions to events around him and offering a bit of historical detail (or gossip: he's met some of the authors, too).
		Manguel gets around, travelling quite widely over the course of the year, while he's also always eager to return to a relatively new home in France.
		Alberto Manguel was born in Argentina and now lives in Canada.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/manguela/readingd.htm (1009 words)

	Rhodes: Opening Convocation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberto Manguel, an internationally known writer, translator, and editor, will give the Opening Convocation address and will serve as Scholar in Residence for the first week of the academic term.
		Manguel has received acclaim for his award-winning book A History of Reading that is a thematic and personal tribute to the joy of reading.
		Manguel was appointed Times Literary Supplement lecturer in the United Kingdom in 1999, Pratt lecturer at the University of Newfoundland in 2002, and S. Fischer professor at Berlin University in 2003.
	www.rhodes.edu /Calendars/Opening-Convocation-10-am.cfm?RenderForPrint=1 (406 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
		Alberto Manguel is a writer, translator, and editor of international reputation; his many books include the award-winning novel News From a Foreign Country Came, and the short story anthologies Black Water, The Gates of Paradise, and (with Craig Stephenson) In Another Part of the Forest.
		Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi's The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a tribute to the collective human imagination in more ways than one.
		Manguel spends a good deal of time explaining the criteria of what would be included (although criteria for exclusions would have been useful and intriguing as well).
	www.sfsite.com /12a/dip94.htm (651 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberto Manguel was a Distinguished Visiting Writer for the 1998-99 year.
		Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and after living in Italy, France, England and Tahiti, became a Canadian citizen in 1985.
		Alberto Manguel has been a frequent guest writer and lecturer at workshops for senior writers at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, and is well-known to the Alberta writing community.
	www.english.ucalgary.ca /markin/wir/1998.htm (196 words)

	Manguel
		Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer with roots in Argentina who was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 then lived for 7 years of his life in Israel before returning to Argentina.
		Manguel looks at great minds from the past: Euclid and Galen thought some something from the reader left and returned with the image, Epicurus and Aristotle thought the opposite - that the outside thing sent some message to the person.
		I think Manguel is saying here that the format of the book is used as a channel, but the purpose isn't the same for each book.
	www.unc.edu /~fazel/manguel.html (929 words)

	Jeanette Winterson - Journalism - The Times - Alberto Manguel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alberto Manguel is keen to teach us the language of art.
		Manguel on Picasso is surprisingly PC: Dora Maar, Picasso's famous Weeping Woman and model for Guernica (1937), becomes a study in violence - the chapter is called 'The Image as Violence' - and Manguel takes the Maar/John Berger line that Picasso only paints himself, distorting his sitters to reflect his psyche.
		Manguel is good at restoring the common vocabulary of pictures and thus saving us from merely private interpretations.
	www.jeanettewinterson.com /pages/content/index.asp?PageID=187 (943 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: Reading Pictures by Alberto Manguel
		Manguel is the celebrated author of A History of Reading and his point of departure is, inevitably, the written word.
		Manguel explains that he has not attempted to devise a systematic method for reading pictures such as those proposed by great art historians.
		Manguel has written an entertaining work that can be either pondered or leafed through, but is certain to give civilised pleasure.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,449756,00.html (1044 words)

	Random House Publicity \| Reading Pictures by Alberto Manguel
		"Alberto Manguel is an expert explorer of what the French call the imaginaire -- a word that combines imagination, imagery and the formation of images in the mind.
		The artists Manguel chooses are surprising and fresh, and his sidetracks occasionally ignore standard biography.
		Alberto Manguel is the acclaimed author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading, which was an international bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, a Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year, and Winner of France's Prix Medicis.
	www.randomhouse.com /randomhouse/publicity/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375759222 (874 words)

	theFulcrum.ca - the University of Ottawa's independent English-language student press
		is a non-fictional record of 12 novels Manguel chooses to reread in 2003, and in which he tries to encapsulate both the important links and mental wanderings that take place in the mind of a reader at work by diligently recording his own thoughts during the rereading of each novel.
		Manguel explores books both well known and obscure, covering a wide range of literary genres and periods, which makes his choice of novels seem alternately random and deliberate.
		These images and impressions weave in and out among Manguel’s references to his favourite novels to reveal a pattern of the connection between literature and the real world.
	www.thefulcrum.ca /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=230&Itemid=26 (775 words)

	Old and New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Between 1964 to 1968, Alberto Manguel, then a 16-year-old bookstore clerk in Buenos Aires, was asked by the blind Borges to read aloud to him.
		In the introduction to an anthology of creative non-fiction produced at the Banff Writing Centre, Manguel recounts that the central question a journalist who writes in the first person must answer is, "Why are you telling all this to me, a stranger?" Manguel himself, however, struggles with the answer to that question in With Borges.
		Still, the impertinent question remains, "Why I am, Alberto Manguel, asking you, a stranger, to pay 20 bucks for this slim book?" To reduce the value of the written word to a crude calculus, weighing paragraphs as if they were bulk food is no doubt crass, as some will find Manguel's insights priceless.
	www.biggeworld.com /archive/with-borges.html (289 words)

	Lorenzo Reading Series 2005-2006 - UNBSJ
		Alberto Manguel – novelist, essayist, editor, translator, and anthologist – is the author of A History of Reading, 1996 winner of Prix Médicis, France, and Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate, shortlisted for a Governor-General’s Award, 2001.
		Alberto Manguel’s A Reading Diary is about what we do here in the Lorenzo Series – read books, talk about books – except that Manguel is rereading.
		Manguel invites the reader to think of the ways in which a book, or our perception of the book, changes between the first reading and rereading, how the return to a book differs from the “rookie thrill”of first reading it.
	www.unbsj.ca /lorenzo/readingseries/3.html (473 words)

	A History of Reading/Alberto Manguel
		Manguel begins his history with the observation that, essentially, reading is nothing more than a process of deciphering and interpreting signs.
		Yet, as Manguel also notes, there are many factors which influence the reading of a written text.
		According to Manguel, in 1995, the Library of Congress added 359,437 new volumes to its impressive collection (not counting magazines and pamphlets).
	alamo.nmsu.edu /~jhaley/reading.htm (845 words)

	Books and Writing - 09/05/2004: Chava Rosenfarb + Alberto Manguel
		Born in Poland in 1923, she and her family had been incarcerated in the Lodz ghetto during the war, which was liquidated in September 1944, and Rosenfarb was deported to Auschwitz.
		Also in Montreal was the Argentinean-born but now Canadian writer, Alberto Manguel, with a reading from a new memoir called With Borges, telling of the time when Manguel encountered the famous writer, who asked the 16-year-old bookstore clerk if he would read to him three or four evenings a week.
		Alberto Manguel [Reads: I worked after school in an Anglo-German book store in Buenos Aires majority of reading not transcribed and then the door closes slowly.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1102117.htm (1941 words)

	Manguel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Manguel sums up the history of reading by saying, "Mysteriously, we continue to read without a satisfactory definition of what it is we are doing."
		The second chapter is a technical discussion of the physical attributes of books and how they have been constructed at various points in history.
		Manguel discusses the codex (introduced in the early centuries A.D.) and its advantages over the scroll form of books.
	ils.unc.edu /~arnsj/inls180-01/Manguel.htm (477 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Reading Diary: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Manguel is a voracious, generous, and astute reader and he includes works from across the globe: Don Quixote, Kim, The Pillow Book, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, novels by H.G. Wells and Goethe.
		Manguel maintains a contemplative tone throughout, as befits a book written for the most part in a medieval presbytery, now his home (after a longtime residence in Canada) in southern France.
		There is no doubt Manguel loves libraries and books: "I explore my library like someone returning to his native land after an absence of decades." His gift is the ability to foster that same love in his readers.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676975909 (405 words)

	Stevenson Under the Palm Trees - Thomas Allen Publishers - Thomas Allen & Son Limited
		Exploring themes of duality and the influence our dreams have on reality, Manguel has crafted a wicked tale about the nature of creation that demonstrates he is a master of the novella form.
		ALBERTO MANGUEL is a writer, novelist, and translator acclaimed for his award-winning books.
		Manguel was born in Buenos Aires, has lived in Italy, England, and Tahiti, and is a Canadian citizen.
	www.thomas-allen.com /ThomasAllenPublishers/catalogue/0-88762-138-4.htm (329 words)

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