It seems that the books breed at night. That’s what I thought I heard in some whispering libraries.
It seems thatAlberto Manguel, this reading thinker knows a lot about the issue: he spends his life turning the pages. Writer, editor, translator of world renown, we owe him many sleepless nights and in particular A history of reading (Medicis Essay Prize 1998). Argentinian and Canadian intellectual, living in Portugal when it is not in France, in New York or in Buenos Aires, he is crossed by multiple… geographies, languages and myths. Visiting professor at the Collège de France for 2021-2022 on the annual chair entitled The invention of Europe through languages and cultureshe passes in an imaginary gust of wind instructing us on the common identity of Europeans, and slipping us under the bed of future insomnia in the form of Actes sud books: I am packing up my library and fabulous monsters.
The musical choices of Alberto Manguel
Sammy Kaye lavender’s blue
Sinead O’Connor How Insensitive
Cecilia Bartoli Lascia ch’io pianga