阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel），1948年生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，1982年移居加拿大后成为加拿大公民，目前定居法国。他是一位文集编纂者、翻译家、散文家、小说家、编辑，在国际间享有盛名，著作有《阅读史》《夜晚的书斋》《恋爱中的博尔赫斯》《想象地名私人词典》等。

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes. <br />  <br />In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile. <br /><br />Manguel's reflections are part memoir, part biography, and all celebration of the living quality of literature. A moving portrait of an enigmatic genius, replete with deep insight into Borges and the writers he most admired.

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