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Est-il meilleur moyen de rencontrer un auteur, parmi les plus fameux et les plus fascinants du XXe siècle, qu'en lui faisant la lecture ? Durant les dernières années de la vie de J. L. Borges, Alberto Manguel, alors étudiant à Buenos Aires, fut chargé par l'écrivain argentin de lire les pages auxquelles ce dernier, atteint de cécité progressive, n'avait plus accès par lui-même. Au fil de souvenirs, dont on sent l'importance qu'ils ont eue sur l'écriture et la réflexion de Manguel, se dessine un récit empreint de retenue et d'affection qui évoque les affinités littéraires en même temps que le simple quotidien d'un génie ordinaire.

80 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

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Alberto Manguel

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Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).

Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.

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