Presents the stories of book thieves, book burners, censors, anarchists, women of eleventh century Japan who had to invent their own reading material, and African American slaves who were forbidden to read under penalty of death

Product Description: Imbued with a magical quality, this elegant fable transports readers to early 20th-century China, a country brimming with ghosts, with weddings between the living and the dead, and with superstitions and ancestral rites. Living in the midst of this is the tale’s protagonist, a young girl living in dread of the marriage her parents are attempting to arrange for her...read more

Product Description: An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster...read more

Product Description: In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect...read more

Product Description: An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our timeA towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness...read more

Product Description: This visual history takes us through a classic assemblage of famous personalities from the worlds of literature, photography, art, politics and film.

RETRACTILADO ORIGINAL, DE MÉXICO CON AMOR MISMO DÍA SI RECIBO SU PEDIDO POR LA MAÑANA EN DÍAS HÁBILES

Product Description: Alberto Manguel en distendida charla con su editor Claude Rouquet. Libros. Experiencias.Textos. Lecturas. Autores.Todo el universo de

Product Description: Esta antología reúne doce cuentos de algunos de los escritores extranjeros más notables del siglo anterior; todos ellos con un escenario en común: México. Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, D...read more

Product Description: Debate. Barcelona. 2010. 23 cm. 283 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Debate historia'. Traducción de Carmen Criado. Homero-. Crítica e interpretación. Homero-. Influencia. Criado Fernández, Carmen ...read more

Con un espíritu lúdico que atrapará a todo aficionado al libro y a la lectura, ALBERTO MANGUEL traza en esta deliciosa mezcla de psicología, historia, anécdotas, memoria, fantasía, estudios clásicos, etc., un estimulante recorrido por el caprichoso y apasionante laberinto de 6.000 años de palabra escrita. Lectores y experie

The end of ethnic nationalism — building societies that promote civic nationalism with universally accepted value systems — seems eminently sensible. But something is going wrong. In these 2007 Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the problems that come with creating new societies. Race riots in France, political murder in The Netherlands, bombings in Britain — all appear to be symptoms of a multicultural experiment gone awry. Politicians and sociologists are puzzled; why is it so hard for people to live together given the grim alternatives? Is blood still more important than peaceful coexistence? In The City of Words Manguel proposes a different approach: look at what writers have to say — maybe books and stories hold secret keys to the human heart, keys that social planners can’t find. With his trademark wit and erudition, Manguel suggests looking on the library shelf marked “fiction” for the book titled How to Build a Better Society.

Product Description: Why are libraries such desirable commissions for contemporary architects and the frequent source of inspiration for artists and writers through the ages? LOGOTOPIA - the ancient Greek for word place - explores the library through architecture, art, and literature...read more