Reading history. 3rd edition. Mangel Alberto

When and where did the letters first arose? What is the sweetness of reading? Who taught camels to walk alphabetically? Is it true what kind of love for reading was executed? Is reading passion or resting? The author perceives reading as seduction, as a rebellion, as an obsession and traces the previously not told story about how we moved from a clay plate to a scroll, the code and, in the end, to hypertext. Infinitely fascinating, exciting study of what it means to be a reader, to understand ourselves through what we read. Alberto Mangel (b. 1948) is a famous Canadian culturalist, writer, director of the National Library of Argentina. Among the characters of his fascinating book, writers and philosophers, holy and ordinary mortals are lovers of reading and books.