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Lecture

The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm

Alberto Manguel

Three lectures by Alberto Manguel about readers and reading.

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March 21, 22, and 24, 2011. Lectures begin 5:30pm, first two at Claudia Cohen Hall (249 South 36th Street) and latter at Class of '55 Conference Room (Van Pelt Room 241)

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Claudia Cohen Hall (249 South 36th Street)

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Open to the Public

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Schedule

March 21, 2011: "The Reader as Traveller"
March 22, 2011: "The Reader in the Ivory Tower"
March 24, 2011: "The Reader as Bookworm"

Alberto Manguel

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.

Event Series

Man standing in front of wall of bookshelves holding open book

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

The Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Rosenbach Fellows typically present three lectures over a period of one-two weeks.