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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book — that string of confused, alien ciphers — shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
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Een geschiedenis van het lezen, Alberto Manguel
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- Een geschiedenis van het lezen
- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Alberto Manguel
- Publisher
- Ambo
- Released
- 1999
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 902631566X
- ISBN13
- 9789026315664
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Philosophical Topics, Writing, Culture, Cultural History, About Books, Writers, Reading, Literary History, Libraries, Librarianship, Library science, Book Culture
- First published
- 1996
- Original title
- A History of Reading
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book — that string of confused, alien ciphers — shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.