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Alberto Manguel

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115+ opere 14,706 membri 277 recensioni 67 preferito

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Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor, and critic. Born in Buenos Aires, he has since resided in Israel, Argentina, Europe, the South Pacific, and Canada.
Fonte dell'immagine: Alberto Manguel in his library

Serie

Opere di Alberto Manguel

Una storia della lettura (1996) 3,796 copie
La biblioteca di notte (2006) — Autore — 2,656 copie
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (2017) — Autore — 508 copie
A Reader on Reading (2010) 504 copie
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — A cura di — 500 copie
The City of Words (2007) 297 copie
Curiosity (2000) — Autore — 246 copie
Con Borges (2003) 239 copie
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — A cura di — 152 copie
Stevenson sotto le palme (2001) 149 copie
Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women (1985) — Editor & Translator — 122 copie
The Gates of Paradise (1993) — A cura di — 113 copie
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — A cura di — 73 copie
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (1985) — A cura di — 61 copie
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — A cura di — 33 copie
The Library Book (2017) 33 copie
Relatos (1987) — A cura di — 33 copie
Amante Detalhista, O (2005) 30 copie
Soho Square Three (Bk. 3) (1990) 29 copie
Fathers & Sons (1998) 25 copie
Canadian Mystery Stories (1991) — A cura di — 23 copie
The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1990) — A cura di — 19 copie
El regreso (2005) 13 copie
Borges'in Evinde (2002) 11 copie
El regreso de Ulises (2014) 6 copie
Sehnsucht Utopie (2017) 5 copie
Le Livre des Eloges (2007) 5 copie
Histoires classiques (2010) 3 copie
Adolescenza (1996) 2 copie
Ayrintilara Asik Adam (2019) 1 copia
Personajes imaginarios (2011) 1 copia
Bestiario 1 copia
LENDO IMAGENS 1 copia

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La cena segreta (2003) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni1,732 copie
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni1,343 copie
Mist (1907) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,248 copie
Bad Trips (1991) — Collaboratore — 233 copie
Solitudini (1613) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni223 copie
The Merciful Women (2000) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni208 copie
Dostoevskij legge Hegel in Siberia e scoppia a piangere (2006) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni83 copie
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany (2004) — A cura di, alcune edizioni81 copie
Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our History (2001) — Collaboratore — 50 copie
Die unendliche Bibliothek: Erzählungen (Fischer Taschenbibliothek) (2010) — Editor and Afterword, alcune edizioni32 copie
The Imagined Land (2011) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni25 copie
Slightly Foxed 34: Return to Arcadia (2012) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Las bibliotecas de Dédalo (2006) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni14 copie
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (2020) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Into The Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction (2017) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
L'angoisse du héron : Suivi de L'angoisse du lecteur (2009)alcune edizioni3 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Manguel, Alberto
Nome legale
Manguel, Alberto
Data di nascita
1948
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Argentinië (geboren)
Canada (paspoort ∙ 1985)
Nazione (per mappa)
Argentina
Luogo di nascita
Buenos Aires, Argentinië
Luogo di residenza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Israel
Tahití
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Poitou-Charentes, France
Istruzione
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Attività lavorative
editor
translator
writer
publisher's reader
Relazioni
Jorge Luís Borges
Organizzazioni
Writer's Union of Canada
PEN
National Library of Argentina
Roxburghe Club
Premi e riconoscimenti
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2004)
Premio Germán Sánchez Ruipérez (2002)
Agente
Guillermo Schavelzon
Jennifer Barclay
Bruce Westwood
Breve biografia
Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires and settled in France. He is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, PEN, and a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been named an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Liège in Belgium and the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and also won the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Prize (Spain) and the Prix Roger Caillois (France) for the ensemble of his work, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. [from My Name is Victoria (2011)]

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C'è questo bel personaggio, che è un giornalista, che ritiene più onesto dare la propria personale “visione del mondo”, assumendosi la responsabilità di quel che scrive, piuttosto che restituire una “falsa oggettività”.

Mi piace come sta ad ascoltare la stessa storia dell'argentino emigrato in Spagna e trovato morto - Alejandro Bevilacqua – dai racconti, diversissimi fra loro, di varie persone che hanno conosciuto il portegno.

Finché, quando ha raccolto più informazioni possibile, dando prova di rarissima virtù, consapevole dei propri limiti, fa un passo indietro e “contemporaneamente, nel momento stesso in cui mi rassegno a non scriverlo, sento che il mio personaggio prende vita, sento che è Bevilacqua ad affermarsi.”… (altro)
 
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Statistiche

Opere
115
Opere correlate
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Utenti
14,706
Popolarità
#1,565
Voto
3.9
Recensioni
277
ISBN
519
Lingue
27
Preferito da
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