Into the Looking-Glass Wood Essays on Books, Reading, and the World

"For almost his entire life, Alberto Manguel writes, he has been obsessed with the relationship between language and experience. Like the residents of Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo, he says, we invent our world by giving names to the things in it. Manguel, the author of A HISTORY OF READING, investigates this process of invention from many angles in [this] collection of essays....He brilliantly recasts his experiences as a young man, reading Dante and Borges.Manguel, Alberto is the author of 'Into the Looking-Glass Wood Essays on Books, Reading, and the World', published 2000 under ISBN 9780156012652 and ISBN 0156012650.