Alberto Manguel
- Author(s)
- Alberto Manguel
- Publication
- Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006
- Scope
- 373 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 0676975887
Alberto Manguel conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the “complete” libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria as well as the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought—the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral “memory libraries” kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books.
- Keywords
- libraries
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Bibliotheken
- Extra themes
- Architecture and Art
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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