Un retour
Nestor Fabris revient à Bueno Aires après trente ans d'exil. Lors d'une journée de manifestation sévèrement réprimée, il avait fui abandonnant ses camarades qui ont combattu. De retour dans sa ville natale, tout lui est hostile et il se retrouve dans un univers fantastique où sont rassemblés les tortionnaires, les juges, les profiteurs. Nestor doit expier à l'infini quelques minutes de peur ...
Literature & FictionGenre Fiction
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERActes Sud
LENGTH78
LANGUAGEFR
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A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. **The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel** *Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008* There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence, whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit. Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said, “affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.” [Read the whole review][1] (PDF) [1]: http://www.atelieraldente.de/manguel_0h4/documents/Ackroyd%20The%20Library%20at%20Night.pdf
Un retour
by Alberto Manguel, Alexandra Carrasco
Nestor Fabris revient à Bueno Aires après trente ans d'exil. Lors d'une journée de manifestation sévèrement réprimée, il avait fui abandonnant ses camarades qui ont combattu. De retour dans sa ville natale, tout lui est hostile et il se retrouve dans un univers fantastique où sont rassemblés les tortionnaires, les juges, les profiteurs. Nestor doit expier à l'infini quelques minutes de peur ...
Literature & FictionGenre Fiction
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERActes Sud
LENGTH78
LANGUAGEFR
A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. **The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel** *Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008* There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence, whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit. Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said, “affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.” [Read the whole review][1] (PDF) [1]: http://www.atelieraldente.de/manguel_0h4/documents/Ackroyd%20The%20Library%20at%20Night.pdf
