Library at night

From Alberto Manguel, whose books we have previously published: The History of Reading (2001), At Borges's House (2002), Stevenson Under the Palms (2004), Hayali Yerler Sözlükü (YKY, 2005) and Reading Diary (2007), once again books, libraries, reading and A book about writing.
Library at Night is in the same tradition as the Médicis award-winning History of Reading, which George Steiner praised as "a love letter to reading": it tells the gripping story of the critical role that libraries play in our civilization.
Alberto Manguel, "the tireless champion of the written word" (The Vancouver Sun), "the keeper of the word and the protector of the book" (The Globe and Mail), sets out from the library he established in his home in France and with his vast imagination, he travels from Ancient Egypt to the Arab world, from China to Rome. It extends from authors' personal libraries to libraries on the Internet. The "oral libraries" of the prisoners, the imaginary libraries of Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, even the libraries consisting of unwritten books such as Borges's Tlön, H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon, are all the "access" of Manguel and his book. in the field. ...



Number of Pages: 300

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages: 300

First Print Year: 2008

Language Turkish