Alberto Manguel: 24 books

Book cover of Sleeping Dragons
by Magela Baudoin, Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Baudoin's beguiling portrayals of day-to-day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid, and on the verge of falling apart. In the title story, a pregnant woman on an eco-adventure to escape a recent break-up finds herself heading towards an even murkier future. In "Mengele...
Book cover of No Bosque do Espelho
by Alberto Manguel
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 27, 2012

Recorrendo a histórias pessoais e a reflexões literárias ricas em humor e erudição subtil, Alberto Manguel leva-nos a reflectir sobre as delícias e responsabilidades da leitura - uma viagem despoletada pela humanidade do autor, pela sua curiosidade insaciável e extraordinária abrangência da percepção do mundo.
Book cover of Bütün İnsanlar Yalancıdır
by Alberto Manguel
Language: Turkish
Release Date: December 19, 2016

Gazeteci Jean-Luc Terradillos, 30 yıl önce Madrid'de intihar eden gizemli yazar Alejandro Bevilacqua'nın hayatını araştırmaya girişir. Bunun için Bevilacqua'yla, hayatının çeşitli dönemlerinde yakın ilişki kurmuş dört kişiyi seçer ve onlardan Bevilacqua'yı anlatmalarını ister....
Book cover of En las montañas de Holanda
by Cees Nooteboom, Alberto Manguel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 20, 2012

«En las montañas de Holanda es una pequeña obra maestra, un cuento de hadas cuyo protagonista es la lengua, creadora de palabras, diversificadora de sentido, desentrañadora de misterios. [...] El lector es como el público de un espectáculo de magia, alguien que se sabe engañado y que se deja...
Book cover of Zwei Liebhaber des Schattens
by Alberto Manguel
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2013

"Zwei Liebhaber des Schattens" sammelt zwei Kurzromane über das Dunkel der Existenz. Im ersten Roman verfällt ein merkwürdiger Erotiker der menschlichen Haut, die er immer wieder fotografiert. Doch das Begehrte entzieht sich ihm, und die Obsession frisst seine Seele auf. Der zweite Roman...
Book cover of Stevenson Under The Palm Trees
by Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009

In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr Baker, turns his thoughts back to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home. As Stevenson's meetings...
Book cover of Les aventures de Joseph Grimaldi
by Eduardo BERTI, Charles DICKENS, Alberto MANGUEL
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Un Dickens méconnu et quasi inédit en français. Dans ce roman biographique, qui relate les étranges aventures du plus grand clown anglais du XIXe siècle, le jeune Boz laisse déjà percevoir son étonnant talent de conteur. Voici un ouvrage de Dickens à peu près ignoré en France, qui...
Book cover of The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)
by Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace, are the starting point for a meditation on the roles of writer and reader, and what kind of...
Book cover of Todos los hombres son mentirosos
by Alberto Manguel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2016

Esta novela se teje en torno a la muerte (¿accidental?) del escritor sudamericano Alejandro Bevilacqua, caído de un balcón en Madrid apenas después de publicarse su genial obra "Elogio de la mentira", que le vale póstumamente un lugar de honor en las letras hispanas. Pero ¿quién era...
Book cover of El viajero, la torre y la larva

El viajero, la torre y la larva

El lector como metáfora

by Alberto Manguel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 26, 2015

Ésta obra por primera vez traducida al español, nos invita a analizar "el acto de leer" a través del uso de metáforas donde el lector es un viajero dentro del libro que cual mundo, extenso, peligroso, salvaje, abierto al descubrimiento y la transformación, nos atrapa. ¿Cómo es este...
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