Alberto Manguel
reads from “The Return”
Kaleidoscope
Moderation · Arno Widmann
Speaker · Frank Arnold
In the story “El regreso” the antiquarian Fabris returns to Buenos Aires, his native city, after thirty years in Rome and is confronted with his past while walking through the city.
Alberto Manguel, born in Buenos Aires in 1948, is an author of prose, translator and publisher. His most well-known work, “A History of Reading” (1996), describes the cultural history of book reception from its development in antiquity up to the present.
Moderation · Arno Widmann
Speaker · Frank Arnold
In the story “El regreso” the antiquarian Fabris returns to Buenos Aires, his native city, after thirty years in Rome and is confronted with his past while walking through the city.
Alberto Manguel, born in Buenos Aires in 1948, is an author of prose, translator and publisher. His most well-known work, “A History of Reading” (1996), describes the cultural history of book reception from its development in antiquity up to the present.