Genres > Non-fiction > Literary
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NON FICTION. 2006
The Library at Night is Manguel’s most important book since A History of Reading . This time, Manguel attempts to answer the question: why do we believe that we can organize the universe?...
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ESSAY, 2006
The title of this book refers to the famous Erasmus essay. For him, madness, that “joyful aberration of the mind,” explained the many nonsensical activities in which humans get...
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NON FICTION , 2004
“There is a vast group of people who once read out loud to Borges: little Boswells who are often unaware of the others but who collectively maintain the memory of one of the most lucid...
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NON FICTION, 2004
While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was stuck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's Elective Affinities ) seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living....
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NON FICTION, 2000
"After all, every picture is a history of love and hate when read from the appropriate angle", wrote Leopoldo Salas-Nicanor in 1731, and in this marvellously illuminating book Alberto Manguel sets...
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NON FICTION, 1998
Best known for his Jungle Books and his Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling was a complex and fascinating writer. Born in Bombay, sent to the England of his parents at the age of five and left for...
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NON FICTION, 1996
1998 PRIX MÉDICIS From clay tablets to CD-ROM, from book thieves to book burners, bibliophiles, book fools and saints, this discursive essay (with 140 illustrations) on the mysteries...
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