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Writer and critic Manguel's (Reading Pictures) elegantly elliptical and wryly contemporary diary of cities revisited and books reread during 2002 and 2003 opens with a journey he undertakes to his birthplace, Buenos Aires, just after Argentina's economic crisis in December 2001. As Manguel's reading overlaps with jotted observations of Buenos Aires, he reflects on the meaning of homeland, and on memory. Nostalgia and the significance of cities—in personal and literary terms—are themes that preoccupy Manguel on further trips to London, Paris, Germany and Canada. Yet Manguel is less melancholic than thoughtful and joyfully postmodern. At home in rural France, his reflections range as widely as on his travels, emerging as he tidies his library, converses with writers Mavis Gallant and Rohinton Mistry, and receives visits from his adult children. His eclectic reading matter includes H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Margaret Atwood, Kipling and Goethe. And he quotes from many more writers: Chateaubriand, Virginia Woolf and Chesterton, to name but a few. Manguel delights in list making—whether of favorite detective novels, mad scientists or literary heroes. Manguel's exquisitely distilled style and gentle humility are pure pleasure. His diary is a gold mine of the unexpected, and his companionable, deeply cultivated persona will entrance all those who love to read and to ponder.
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From Booklist
An exceptionally responsive reader, a discerning and cosmopolitan literary scholar, and the author of the much cherished A History of Reading (1996), Manguel writes about books with an enlivening mix of autobiography and criticism that now finds felicitous form in a two-year diary chronicling his rereading of a set of beloved books. This is a time-honored tradition, but Manguel's approach is unique in his selections, his perceptions, and his savoir faire. An Argentine who became a Canadian citizen and who has traveled and lived all around the world, Manguel counts among his favorites Sherlock Holmes and Don Quixote, Kipling and Goethe, H. G. Wells and Margaret Atwood, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave and The Wind in the Willows. Manguel muses on the resonance and relevance of these works and many others, while simultaneously recounting his journeys to such places as Buenos Aires, Newfoundland, and Sweden, and sharing the quiet pleasure of setting up his extensive library in his new (yet very old) home in France. (See p.214 for a review of Manguel's literary mystery.) Donna Seaman
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