Title: A history of reading
Description: At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
Subjects: History, Reading, Books and reading, Lezen, Boeken, Histoire, books, Geschichte, Livres et lecture, Lesekultur, open_syllabus_project, Books and reading, history, Lecture, Livre, Lecture, Goût de la, Literature, history and criticism, Books, history