Sa Borhesom
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- Author: Manguel Alberto
- Publisher: Geopoetika
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 77654
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Sa Borhesom
Manguel Alberto
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Alberto Manguel: With Borges
During the 1960s, Alberto Mangel, then a teenager, worked after school in a bookstore in Buenos Aires. One day, the legendary Jorge Luis Borges, who would stop by the bookstore after work, asked the young man if he could come to his apartment and read to him during the evening. Borges, the colossus of modern literature, gradually went blind and could no longer read his beloved books on his own.
Over several years, Mangel spent many evenings reading to the great writer and witnessed the blind Borges' remarkable ability to pick titles off the shelf that he knew he would enjoy by just running his fingers over the covers of some of them. He discovered Borges' love for Sherlock Holmes and Viking warriors, watched with him gangster films starring James Cagney, as well as West Side Story. As Mangel describes these visits to Borges' dark, modest apartment and how he reads aloud and talks to him about books, we are privileged to enter the inner world of the literary legend. Illustrated with rare photographs of Borges taken by Argentinian Sara Facio, this book is a remarkable window into the private life of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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- Author: Manguel Alberto
- Publisher: Geopoetika
- Year of publication:2005
- Place of publication:Beograd
- Pages:90
- Dimensions:12x20 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Softcover
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