Alberto manguel curiosity meaning

By Laura Smith

What Is Curiosity?

It is an unpredictable journey.

Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor, and critic, but would rather define himself as a reader.

Curiosity is typically adaptive because, while it can be risky, it also brings the possibility of greater understanding and control.

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and.

Language is the instrument of his curiosity—even as he tells us that the answer to his most burning questions cannot be uttered by a human.

How Do We Question? What Are We Doing Here?What Do We Want to Know? The award-winning Canadian writer Alberto Manguel explores these, and thirteen other equally poignant questions in his book Curiosity, published by Yale University Press (2015).

A personal, historical, poetic, and imaginative journey, Manguel’s book invites readers to contemplate some of the questions that—since time immemorial—have driven human beings to display both their best and worst attributes.

Born in Buenos Aires, Manguel grew up in Tel-Aviv, and has since mostly resided in Europe and Canada.

Curiosity for Alberto Manguel is an intimate search for self.

The experience of living in multiple countries as the son of a diplomat has inevitably influenced Manguel’s complex sense of identity and culture, his experience as a writer and, foremost, as a reader. For Manguel, the reader pierces through the constraints of a constructed linear experience of time and space and as such forms part of a collective imaginative fabric.

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