The Library at Night
Autor Alberto Manguelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2009
Această monografie subiectivă, The Library at Night, reprezintă o incursiune fascinantă în fenomenologia spațiului dedicat lecturii, semnată de Alberto Manguel. Remarcăm modul în care autorul transformă procesul logistic al mutării propriei colecții într-o casă veche de pe Valea Loarei într-un eseu amplu despre dorința umană de a ordona universul prin intermediul volumelor. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în structura sa „plăcut nebună”, care refuză rigoarea academică în favoarea unei logici labirintice, explorând biblioteci reale, precum cea a lui Jorge Luis Borges sau Charles Dickens, dar și spații mitice sau interzise.
Cititorii familiarizați cu The Library de Stuart Kells vor aprecia aici o abordare mult mai intimă și filosofică; în timp ce Kells se concentrează pe istoria instituțională, Manguel privilegiază relația emoțională și politică cu obiectul cărții. De asemenea, volumul completează organic temele abordate în A History of Reading, transformând actul lecturii într-o arhitectură fizică și spirituală. Manguel nu se limitează la antichitate, ci analizează critic tranziția către bibliotecile virtuale, păstrând un ton entuziast, dar vigilent față de supraviețuirea cuvântului scris în fața tiraniei sau a uitării. Tonul este unul reflexiv, susținut de imagini care ancorează speculațiile teoretice în realitatea materială a bibliotecilor lumii.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0300151306
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 76 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
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Recomandăm această carte oricărui bibliofil care vede în rafturile sale mai mult decât o simplă depozitare de obiecte. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă istorică și culturală profundă asupra modului în care bibliotecile au modelat civilizația. Este un motiv concret de a reflecta la rolul bibliotecii ca spațiu de rezistență morală, fiind o lectură esențială pentru cei care activează în domeniul studiilor culturale sau al istoriei ideilor.
Despre autor
Alberto Manguel este un scriitor, eseist și traducător de renume internațional, recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai importanți cronicari ai culturii scrise. Faima sa a fost consolidată de lucrări precum A History of Reading și The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, aceasta din urmă scrisă în colaborare cu Gianni Guadalupi. Opera sa include și ficțiune, romanul său „News from a Foreign Country Came” fiind distins cu premiul McKitterick în 1992. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o erudiție vastă și o capacitate unică de a lega istoria literaturii de experiența umană universală.
Descriere scurtă
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.
Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, 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, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, the library of books never written—Manguel illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout, The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through Manguel’s mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations.
Recenzii
"A remarkable book—remarkable above all for its openness to the possibilities that books hold out, and for the passion with which it tries to instill the same attitude in its readers."—John Gross, New York Review of Books
"An eloquent and surprisingly moving tribute not only to libraries, private and public, but to our enduring need for them and for the order they try so hard to impose on a chaotic world. . . . Manguel does all facets of his subject proud in The Library at Night, celebrating a treasure we so often take for granted. With this wise and tender book, he also creates a treasure of his own."—The Gazette (Montreal)
"In a good book, certain passages stand out because they are well written. In a great book, nothing stands out because nothing can. The Library at Night is one of those great books."—Globe and Mail
"Manguel has assembled thumbnail biographies, entertaining anecdotes, close readings, and photographic documentation into a kind of commonplace book stitched together by his amiable prose. . . . The Library at Night . . . communicates the joy and the solace of being yourself a reader."—Brian Sholis, BookForum
"The success of The Library at Night is the product of a mind made by reading, and the realization of its own essential argument: The library is a mirror in which we find ourselves and our world reflecting and interpenetrating."—Matthew Battles, Wilson Quarterly
"To read this book is to be invited into a world in which books are both, luxury and necessity, destiny and serendipity, to experience that sweet moment when the world falls away and we are left alone with the words on the page."—Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Manguel . . . celebrates books as brothers, as crucial companions for a lifetime."—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"For bibliophiles, The Library at Night is a pleasure—especially at this time of expansion, reinvention and internet related uncertainty for libraries. For those like Manguel who are distressed by the amnesia of the Web, this book is also an excellent example of how to rejuvenate the past and continue its conversations."—Ben Carlson, The Atlantic.com
"The Library at Night is a pleasant journey across times and places, Manguel exploring the history of book-collections and repositories and the people behind them, and the books in them. . . . Richly illustrated, and with many, many entertaining examples from the literary world . . . The Library at Night is an enjoyable easy ride. . . . As a general but also very personal library-tour-book it is certainly worthwhile, and offers sufficient rewards for anyone who is bookishly inclined."—Complete Review Quarterly
"[A] deliciously rich and lavishly illustrated book of books. . . . [A] magical book."—Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News (Editor's Choice)
"In The Library at Night, Alberto Manguel . . . lovingly explores the nooks and crannies of this enchanted domain. To call Mr. Manguel a 'bookman' would be the grossest of understatements. He lives and breathes books."—Eric Ormsby, New York Sun
"A vivaciously erudite justification for society's inexorable efforts to collect, order and store information. . . . Book lovers will luxuriate in these earnest and impressively researched pages."—Christine Thomas, Miami Herald
"Delightful. . . . [A] richly illustrated, thoughtful ramble sure to please any bibliophile. . . . Part history, part literary analysis, part cultural commentary, part intensely personal journey, The Library at Night is a successful and altogether wonderful book that will amply reward anyone lucky enough to pull it from the shelf—be that shelf in a public library, a school library, a bookstore or one's own living room."—John Sledge, Alabama Press-Register
"This is the kind of non-fiction that keeps me reading past midnight."—Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books & Collections
"A fascinating book that makes one yearn for an un-rankled insomnia."—Christopher Byrd, Barnes & Noble
"Like Montaigne's essays and Borges's fables, Manguel's ruminations on libraries are inviting, discursive, learned, playful, and imaginative."—Michael J. Ryan, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Bronze medal winner of the 2008 Book of the Year Award in the category of Architecture, presented by ForeWord magazine
"In my personal library of imaginary places, and more specifically on the bookcases near my desk, I maintain a shelf reserved for brilliant readers. There's rarely any turnover. Borges, Calvino, Benjamin and Zweig (plus a few other steadfast patrons). With Manguel's The Library at Night, that will clearly have to change."—Allen Kurzweil, author of The Grand Complication and A Case of Curiosities
Notă biografică
Alberto Manguel is an internationally acclaimed reader, writer, and critic. From 2015 to 2018 he was the director of the National Library of Argentina. His books include The Library at Night, A Reader on Reading, Curiosity, Fabulous Monsters, and Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey." He lives in Lisbon, Portugal.