A history of reading
About this book
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.
Subjects
- boeken
- books
- books and reading
- books and reading, history
- books, history
- geschichte
- histoire
- history
- lecture
- lecture, goût de la
- lesekultur
- lezen
- literature, history and criticism
- livre
- livres et lecture
- open_syllabus_project
- reading