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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.

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