A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor.
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008
There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence,
whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words
and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit.
Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost
libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human
achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said,
“affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a
public library.”
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Fiction, Short stories, Books and reading, History, Livres et lecture, Christmas stories, Erotic stories, Fantasy fiction, History and criticism, Anthologie, Art appreciation, Biography, Epic poetry, Epic poetry, history and criticism, Fantastic literature, Fiction, general, Histoire, Histoires érotiques, Homer, Homosexuality, Latin American fiction, Lezen, Literature, Literature and society, LivrePlaces
Argentina, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Canada, Justice of the Peace Court, Samoa, Samoan IslandsPeople
Alberto Manguel, Abner Snopes, Homer, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-), Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Mr. Harris, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Sartoris SnopesID Numbers
- OLID: OL30928A
- ISNI: 0000000121201061
- VIAF: 9850131
- Wikidata: Q554406
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