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Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of hundreds of works, most recently (in English) A Reader on Reading, All Men Are Liars, and The City of Words. He lives in France.
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Facing the Camera
How much does a photograph really capture the essence of a person?
Mar 13, 2012 by Alberto Manguel in Columns (1 Comments)
Cri de Coeur
Alberto Manguel explains how Ned Kelly's Jerilderie letter, written as a personal account of the murders for which he stood accused, became a depiction of the world that surrounded him, with its fears, violent acts, petty vices and helplessness
Nov 21, 2011 by Alberto Manguel in Essays
Metamorphoses
Alberto Manguel compares his life in the French countryside to that of Cain, whom God despised for being a settled crop farmer, and whom he punished by forcing him to wander.
Sep 13, 2011 by Alberto Manguel in Columns (1 Comments)
Burning Mistry
Alberto Manguel examines a modern-day book burning and asks: how is this still happening?
May 2, 2011 by Alberto Manguel in Columns