Description

Title: Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books

Author: Alberto Manguel

ISBN: 9780374247423

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: Canadian First

Number of Pages: 224

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe’s “Elective Affinities”) seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word. He decided to keep a record of these moments, rereading a book a month, and forming “A Reading Diary”: a volume of notes, reflections, impressions of travel, of friends, of events public and private, all ellicited by his reading.
From “Don Quixote” (August) to “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (February) to “Kim” (April), Manguel leads us on an enthralling adventure in literature and life, and demonstrates how, for the passionate reader, one is utterly inextricable from the other.