Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguelis an Argentine Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, A History of Reading, The Library at Nightand Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography; and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came. Though almost all of Manguel's books were written in English, two of his novelswere written in Spanish, and El regreso has not yet been published in English. Manguel has also...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionWriter
long library empty
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
night voice library
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
book library together
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
order vision library
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
dream book library
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.
reflection library reader
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
ambition library alexandria
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.
book kitchen library
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
library authority seems
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
library shade absence
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
book thinking library
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
library exclusion preference
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
order library realms
During the day, the library is a realm of order.
writing library sake
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.