A reader on reading
By: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven, [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780300159820
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: A reader in the looking-glass wood; title: Room for the shadow; title: On being Jewish; title: Meanwhile, in another part of the forest; title: The further off from England; title: Homage to Proteus; title: Borges in love; title: Borges and the longed-for Jew; title: Faking it; title: The death of Che Guevara; title: The blind bookkeeper; title: The perseverance of truth; title: AIDS and the poet; title: The full stop; title: In praise of words; title: A brief history of the page; title: The voice that says "I"; title: Final answers; title: What song the sirens sang; title: Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader; title: How Pinocchio learned to read; title: Candide in Sanssouci; title: The gates of paradise; title: Time and the doleful knight; title: Saint Augustine's computer; title: Reading white for black; title: The secret sharer; title: Honoring Enoch Soames; title: Jonah and the whale; title: The legend of the dodos; title: In memoriam; title: God's spies; title: Once again, Troy; title: Art and blasphemy; title: At the mad hatter's table; title: Notes towards a definition of the ideal library; title: The library of the wandering Jew; title: The library as home; title: The end of reading.