{"remote_ids": {"viaf": "9850131", "wikidata": "Q554406", "isni": "0000000121201061"}, "birth_date": "1948", "personal_name": "Alberto Manguel", "name": "Alberto Manguel", "links": [{"title": "Manguel's homepage", "url": "http://www.alberto.manguel.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Wikipedia entry", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Manguel", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL30928A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "source_records": ["amazon:8426416438", "bwb:9780864925916", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-11-03:KR-570-464", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-09-12:O8-CMJ-313"], "alternate_names": ["MANGUEL,ALBERTO", "manguel-alberto", "Alberto (editor) Manguel"], "bio": "A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor.\r\n\r\n**The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel** \r\n*Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times   May 8, 2008* \r\n\r\nThere is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence, \r\nwhisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words \r\nand syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit. \r\nLibraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost \r\nlibraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human \r\nachievement and of human learning. \u201cNo place,\u201d Samuel Jonson said, \r\n\u201caffords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a \r\npublic library.\u201d  \r\n\r\n[Read the whole review][1] (PDF)\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://www.atelieraldente.de/manguel_0h4/documents/Ackroyd%20The%20Library%20at%20Night.pdf", "photos": [6676759], "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-04-24T20:38:31.986887"}}