The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2011: Monday, March 21, 2011: "The Reader as Traveller": Total time, 01:11:51. Welcome and Introduction: David McKnight (00:01); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (07:20); Question and Answer: (52:20) Tuesday, March 22, 2011: "The Reader in the Ivory Tower": Total time, 01:05:09. Welcome: David McKnight (00:01); Introduction: Derick Dreher, The Rosenbach Museum & Library (01:50); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (05:47); Question and Answer: (48:30) Thursday, March 24, 2011: "The Reader as Bookworm": Total time, 01:21:14. Welcome: David McKnight (00:01-04:32); Introduction: Roger Chartier (03:05); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (9:52); Question and Answer: (58:18) The 2011 Rosenbach Fellow, Argentine-born Canadian writer, translator, and editor Alberto Manguel, now living in France, is the author of novels, including All Men Are Liars (2008); non-fiction, including A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007), and A Reader on Reading (2010); and studies of works such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. From 1964 to 1968, Manguel was a reader for Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires. To download a podcast of each lecture, choose one of the additional files below. To view the event announcement, select the Download button at upper right.