The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2011: Monday, March 21, 2011: The Reader as Traveller : Total time, 01:11:51. Welcome and Introduction: David McKnight (00:01); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (07:20); Question and Answer: (52:20) Tuesday, March 22, 2011: The Reader in the Ivory Tower : Total time, 01:05:09. Welcome: David McKnight (00:01); Introduction: Derick Dreher, The Rosenbach Museum & Library (01:50); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (05:47); Question and Answer: (48:30) Thursday, March 24, 2011: The Reader as Bookworm : Total time, 01:21:14. Welcome: David McKnight (00:01-04:32); Introduction: Roger Chartier (03:05); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (9:52); Question and Answer: (58:18) The 2011 Rosenbach Fellow, Argentine-born Canadian writer, translator, and editor Alberto Manguel, now living in France, is the author of novels, including All Men Are Liars (2008); non-fiction, including A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007), and A Reader on Reading (2010); and studies of works such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. From 1964 to 1968, Manguel was a reader for Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires. To download a podcast of each lecture, choose one of the additional files below. To view the event announcement, select the Download button at upper right

a et 25 centimes

Improvisation nourrie de l’expérience d’une vie, jam session dans le cadre d’une fabuleuse bibliothèque », c’est ainsi que Claude Rouquet, éditeur de L’Escampette et ami d’Alberto Manguel, présente ces dix conversations qui les ont réunis en toute « franchise intérieure ». Aujourd’hui un livre savoureux dont nous sommes heureux de vous présenter quelques extraits

Spanish and Latin American women writers in the literary canon: a paratextual study of anthologies of fantastic literature (1946-2016)

While it is evident that there are outstanding women authors of the fantastic in Spain and Latin America since the nineteenth century, it is not as clear whether these writers are fairly represented in the corpus available to readers. To what extent are women authors part of the fantastic canon? Are there female reference points for new generations of women writers? To explore processes of canon formation in the literature of the fantastic from a feminist perspective, this article gathers paratexts from 110 anthologies. Employing a quantitative approach with regard to indexed authors, the first section addresses specific questions related to gender and the fantastic in the Hispanic context by analysing statistical data. The empirical study is complemented by an analysis of how the female author is presented and constructed through the discourse in introductions, forewords and other paratextual materials of these anthologies

Europe : le mythe comme métaphore

Le mythe est, essentiellement, un déplacement, une métaphore, une traduction, une parole qui signifie « emporté d’un lieu à un autre ». Les mythes sont transformés, altérés, renouvelés pour correspondre aux besoins d’un temps et d’un lieu. Ils restent néanmoins eux-mêmes, n’étant pas créés en tant que fabrications de l’imagination humaine mais comme des manifestations concrètes de certaines intuitions primordiales. Pour inaugurer la chaire annuelle L’invention de l’Europe par les langues et les cultures du Collège de France, créée en partenariat avec le ministère de la Culture, Alberto Manguel analyse dans l’espace et le temps le mythe d’Europe, dont le contenu pourrait constituer la pierre de touche qui donne aux peuples européens une identité commune intuitive