Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. Families beg to be united: volume XVIII of the Complete Works of Lope de Vega is announced in a catalogue, calling to the other seventeen that sit, barely leafed through, on my shelf. How fortunate for Captain Nemo to be able to say, during his twenty-thousand-league journey under the sea, that ‘the world ended for me the day when my Nautilus sank underwater for the first time. On that day I bought my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last periodicals, and since then, it is for me as if humanity no longer thought nor wrote a single word.’ But for readers like myself, there are no ‘last’ purchases this side of the grave.
Alberto ManguelAs any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader’s hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words.
Alberto ManguelThe power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading.
Alberto ManguelWe read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into words our most intimate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a collaborative act.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: words reading books literature
في القرن الثالث عشر كتب أحدهم على حافة مجلد يضم التواريخ الكنسية : " عند قراءة الكتب عليك أن تعتاد على ملاحظة المعنى أكثر من الكلمات , والتمسك بالثمار وليس بالقشور
Alberto Manguelكان سقراط مقتنعاً بأنّ القراءة لا يمكن أن توقظ داخل القارئ إلاّ ما كان القارئ يعرفه سلفا وبأنّ الحكمة لا يمكن الحصول عليها من أحرف صمّاء ميتة .
Alberto ManguelThis morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
Alberto ManguelWe can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book is merely an accessory and be, in the deepest, truest sense, a reader.
Alberto ManguelLibraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.
Alberto ManguelThere is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we have made ours through instinct, emotion and understanding: suffered through it, rejoiced in it, translated it into our experience and (notwithstanding the layers of readings with which a book come into our hands) essentially become its first discoverers, an experience as astonishing and unexpected.
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