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Istoria lecturii

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Istoria lecturii. Cartea perfecta pentru orice iubitor de carti Intr-o clipa magica a copilariei tale, pagina unei carti - acel sir de simboluri confuze si straine - a capatat sens si universuri intregi ti s-au deschis. Ai devenit, irevocabil, un cititor. Cunoscutul eseist si editor Alberto Manguel porneste de la acest moment esential pentru a explora conversatia inceputa acum 6.000 de ani intre cuvinte si acel erou fara de care cartea ar fi un obiect lipsit de cititorul. Manguel abordeaza cu maiestrie cititul ca seductie, ca rebeliune si ca obsesie, urmarind istoria bizara si fascinanta a progresului cititorului de la tablita de lut la pergament, de la codex la cartile digitale. Acest studiu al istoriei lecturii porneste de la cele mai vechi texte inscriptionate pe tablite de lut in scrierea cuneiforma din Mesopotamia si hieroglifica din Egiptul antic, trece prin cluburile de lectura din Franta medievala formate ad-hoc la sesiunile de tors ale femeilor, inventarea tiparului in secolul XV, obiceiul pierdut al lecturilor cu voce tare (care si-au dobandit repede reputatia de a fi subversive), aparitia colectiilor moderne de carti, pana la nasterea unui public cititor vast si revolutia digitala de astazi. Istoria lecturii este, astfel, o carte care isi propune sa provoace cititorul si sa-l integreze intr-o lunga traditie a bibliofiliei. O minunata imbinare de eruditie si eseu biografic... Manguel scrie atat de frumos si de incantator, incat ne molipseste neincetat cu entuziasmul sau. - Philip Lopate Manguel a abordat subiectul coplesitor al pasiunii noastre pentru carti si a reusit sa-l transforme intr-o carte in care se intrevede propria-i pasiune. - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

424 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

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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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