Author(s)	Alberto Manguel
Publisher	House of Anansi Press
Publication Year	2007

ISBN: 9780887847639

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The City of Words

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In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism — building societies around sets of common values — seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. Manguel suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society. With wit and erudition, Manguel looks at what visionaries, poets, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers have to say about building societies. From Cassandra to Jack London, the Epic of Gilgamesh to the computer Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Don Quixote to Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Manguel draws fascinating and revelatory parallels between the personal and political realities of our present-day world and those of myth, legend, and story.

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Introduction: Why Are We Together? In this chapter, Manguel examines how storytelling shapes political and social identity, making reference to Alfred Döblin, Plato, and Cassandra the Seer. View	Alberto Manguel	27	2007	$2.70
The Tablets of Gilgamesh In this chapter, Manguel examines The Epic of Gilgamesh as a lens for understanding human identity and otherness. View	Alberto Manguel	25	2007	$2.50
The Bricks of Babel In this chapter, Manguel explores the interplay between language, identity, and storytelling, drawing on Kafka’s 1918 Babel meditations, Irish colonial history, and Inuit narrative … View	Alberto Manguel	31	2007	$3.10
The Books of Don Quixote In this chapter, Manguel examines Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605) and the forced expulsion of Jews and Moriscos from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries. View	Alberto Manguel	29	2007	$2.90
The Screen of Hal In this chapter, Manguel examines how societies have built exclusionary structures to manage perceived external threats, from Aristotle’s barbarians to modern economic machinery. View	Alberto Manguel	30	2007	$3.00
Notes This "chapter" includes notes relevant to various chapters. View	Alberto Manguel	10	2007	$1.00

The City of Words

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Alberto Manguel

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