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Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires

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De A, comme Abaton, à Z, comme Zuy, voici qu'un dictionnaire nous offre la plus merveilleuse des invitation au voyage. A partir des univers que de tous temps se plurent à inventer les ecrivains du monde entier, Alberto Manguel et Gianni Guadalupi, forts de leur conviction que la fiction est réalité, ont recensé lieux imaginaires et sites chimériques. Ils en rappellent la situation géographique, la topographie, le climat, la faune et la flore, les formes de gouvernement, les transports et moyens de communication, les moeurs et les coutumes locales, les curiosités touristiques ou les spécialités locales... Rien n'étant inventé, on pourra vérifier dans les textes cités l'exactitude de toutes ces informations, qu'enrichissent par ailleurs " les indispensables " du genre : cartes, plans, dessins, assortis de conseils pratiques, si utiles au voyageur... Recensés avec une extrême rigueur mais loin de tout souci d'exhaustivité, les auteurs et les ouvrages cités ont été choisis selon la seule règle du plaisir. Chaque article de ce dictionnaire, s'il invite à un voyage passionnant à travers l'un ou l'autre des lieux imaginaires, est également prétexte à découvrir - ou à redécouvrir - comme autant d'îles au trésor, des oeuvres illustres ou plus secrètes. Aussi, comment ne pas engager le lecteur a suivre sans délai cette recommandation d'Italo Calvino : " Dans la Bibliothèque du Superflu dont j'aimerais qu'elle trouve toujours une place sur nos étagères, ce Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires est, sans l'ombre d'un doute, un ouvrage dont la consultation est indispensable " ? --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

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The library book

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In pre–Revolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to establish the first public lending library. Throughout the subsequent centuries the library has evolved, but always remained central to the cultural life of the nation. Thomas R. Schiff’s photographs trace the history of the library through aesthetic and style while featuring legendary architects such as Charles F. McKim; Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge; and I. M. Pei. "The library book" beautifully captures the shifting architectural styles and missions of the library in sweeping 360-degree panoramas—from the very earliest American libraries to the modernist masterpieces of Louis I. Kahn and others. In his introductory essay, acclaimed author and library lover Alberto Manguel considers the story of the library in America, its evolving architecture and cultural role, and how the American model reflects the archetypal idea of the universal library. Including brief descriptions of each unique library, this book brings bibliophiles into one hundred libraries across the nation.

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Temples of knowedge: Librairies, art and science

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Devoted to the most renowned Portuguese libraries, this volume details the key role held by knowledge preservation – both as to the epistemological meaning and to the aesthetic dimension – from ancient times until today.

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Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires

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De A, comme Abaton, à Z, comme Zuy, voici qu'un dictionnaire offre la plus merveilleuse des invitations au voyage. À partir des univers que de tous temps se plurent à inventer les écrivains du monde entier, Alberto Manguel et Gianni Guadalupi, forts de leur conviction que la fiction est réalité, ont recensé lieux imaginaires et sites chimériques.

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Curiosity

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Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question “Why?” has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way.

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Packing my library: an elegy and ten digressions

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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries.

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Reading pictures - what we think about when we look at art

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Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images : Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or download images on a screen? Are there ways in which we can "read" the stories within paintings, monuments, buildings and sculptures? We say "every picture tells a story" - but does it? Taking images - photographed, painted, built, sculpted - Alberto Manguel explores how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent.

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Fabulous monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and other literary friends

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Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim from ''Huckleberry Finn,'' Phoebe from ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet’s mother, and Dr. Frankenstein’s maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships.