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Alberto Manguel

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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Argentine-Canadian writer

Born 1948

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    First published in 2008 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1968 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Die verborgene Bibliothek: Eine Elegie und zehn Abschweifungen

    First published in 2018 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1993 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2007 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2006 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1997 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1998 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Von Atlantis bis Utopia E. Fuehrer zu d. imaginaeren Schauplaetzen d. Weltliteratur

    First published in 1981 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Shaʻare gan ha-ʻeden: mivḥar sipurim eroṭiyim

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Argentine-Canadian writer

Born 1948

Subjects

Books and reading, Fiction, History, Short stories, Libraries, Literature, Literature and society, Erotic stories, Fiction, general, History and criticism, Criticism, Homer, Livres et lecture, Authors, Criticism and interpretation, Art appreciation, Death, Epic poetry, history and criticism, Essays, Fantasy fiction, Histoire, Homosexuality, Investigative reporting, Latin American fiction, Lezen

Places

Argentina, Canada, France, Algeria, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Italy, Justice of the Peace Court, Latin America, Madrid, Paris, Samoa, Samoan Islands, Tibehirine

People

Alberto Manguel, Homer, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Abner Snopes, Achilles, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), Gaston-Louis Vuitton (1883-1970), Helen of Troy, Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-), Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Michaelangelo, Mr. Harris, Penelope, Rodolfo J. Walsh, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Sartoris Snopes, Ulysses

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1993-

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Alternative names

  • MANGUEL,ALBERTO
  • manguel-alberto
  • Alberto (editor) Manguel

History

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April 24, 2025 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
December 24, 2021 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternatives names
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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import