“The Gates of Paradise”: Introduction to The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction, ed. Alberto Manguel (Toronto: Walter & Ross,
“Time and the Doleful Knight”: Published in Spanish as “El reloj de Don Quijote,” Matador (Madrid), vol. 50 (2008)
“Saint Augustine’s Computer”: Lecture, Times Literary Supplement Lecture, Hay-on-Wye, 29 May 1997; first published Times Literary Supplement, 4 July 1997
“Reading White for Black”: Published as “No Minor Art,” Index on Censorship (London) (March-April 1996)
“The Secret Sharer”: Saturday Night (Toronto), vol. 102 (July 1987)
“Honoring Enoch Soames”: Published as “The Writers’ Wish List,” New York Times, 8 September 1998
“Jonah and the Whale”: Lecture, Banff Centre for the Arts Lecture, Banff, Alberta, 30 August 1996
“The Legend of the Dodos”: Published in French in Le Monde, 23 March 2006
“In Memoriam”: Alberto Manguel, Into the Looking-Glass Wood (Toronto: Knopf, 1998)
“God’s Spies”: Introduction to God’s Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression, ed. Albert Manguel (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 1999)
“Once Again, Troy”: Lebanon, Lebanon, ed. Anna Wilson (London: Saqi, 2006)
“Art and Blasphemy”: Geist (Vancouver), vol. 60 (Spring 2006)
“At the Mad Hatter’s Table”: Conference paper, Folly, The British Comparative Literature Association, Eleventh International Conference, 2–5 July 2007, Goldsmiths College, University of London
“Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library”: Previously unpublished
“The Library of the Wandering Jew”: Published as “The Exile’s Library,” The Guardian, 21 February 2009
“The Library as Home”: Published as “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World,” New York Times, 15 May 2008
“The End of Reading”: Lecture, Adam Helms Lecture, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 21 April 2009
Index
Ackerley, J.R.
Adair, Gilbert
Adam (biblical)
Addison, Joseph
Advertising
Ahasuerus (Wandering Jew)
AIDS drugs, in South Africa
Albee, Edward, Who ‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Albin Michel
Alexandria, Library of
Alfonsín, Raul
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll); first reading of; insane world of; protean identities in; rereading
Amazon.com, best-seller lists of
Am-Bass press
Ambrose, Saint
Amnesty International
Amundsen, Roald
Anales de Buenos Aires
Andersen, Hans Christian, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,”
Anderson, Jon Lee
Anderson Imbert, Enrique
Andreyev, Leonid
Apollinaire, Guillaume, Calligrammes
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apuleius; The Golden Ass
Aquinas, Saint Thomas; Summa Theo-logica
Archbold, Rick
Arenas, Reinaldo
Argentina: antisemitism in; Che Guevara in; Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; Communist Party of; Disappeared (Desaparecidos) of; government coups in; Jewish settlement in; memory groups in; military amnesty for human rights abuses; under military dictatorship; “misery villages” of; and Perón’s pro-Nazi activities
Aristophanes
Aristotle, Parva naturalia
Armenian massacre
Arnold, Matthew; “Dover Beach,”
Art: of advertising; fool’s; artists in Ninevite society; monetary value of
Assis, Machado de
Astete de Millán, Elsa
Attar, Farid ud-din, Assembly of the Birds
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale
Auden, W. H.
Augustine, Saint; books of; Confessions; on reading; reading ritual of; study of
Augustus, Emperor Author and Editor: A Working Guide
Aztec treasure, value of
Babel, Isaac
Bajarlia, Juan Jacobo
Baker, Carlos
Banchs, Enrique
Barbie, Klaus
Barrientos, René
Barthes, Roland
Basri, Hasan Al-
Bataille, Georges
Batista, Fulgencio
Baudelaire, Charles
Beckett, Samuel
Beckford, William, Vathek
Beerbohm, Max
Behn, Aphra, The Rover
Beirut, images of
Bellay, Joachim de, Défense et exemple de la langue française
Belloc, Hilaire
Benet, Juan, Una meditación
Benjamin, Walter
Bernárdez, Aurora
Bernes, Jean-Pierre
Best-seller lists
Bezos, Jeff
Bianciotti, Héctor
Bianco, José
Bible. See Old Testament
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bioy Casares, Adolfo
Birkerts, Sven, The Gutenberg Elegies
Blake, William Blanchot, Maurice Blasphemy
Blindness: of Homer; and inner reality; in Odyssey; in Old Testament; reader’s positive
Boehringer Ingelheim
Bolaños, Luis de
Bookkeeping, as earliest writing
Bookman, best-seller list of
Books: in Augustine’s library; on bestseller lists; blasphemy charge against; classification of; vs. electronic media; memory of; and production process; as property,. See also Electronic text; Libraries; Page; Reading
Borges, Jorge Luis; all-in-one theme of; death of; on editing; editions and translations of works; fake representations as fictional device of; false attribution of writings to; on Jewish culture; literary ambition of; love life of; marriages of; physical injury to; relationship with Estela Canto; Shakespeare lecture of; shaky voice of; on Ulysses; women characters of — Works: “El acercamiento a Almotásim,”; “The Aleph,”; “The Circular Ruins,”; “The Congress,”; “Death and the Compass,”; “Deutsches Requiem,”; “The Duel,”; “The Elderly Lady,”; “Everything and Nothing,”; Fervor de Buenos Aires; Ficciones; Historia de la eternidad; “I, a Jew,”; “The Immortal,”; “The Intruder,”; El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan; “The Library of Babel,”; “The Lottery of Babylon,”; Nine Essays on Dante; “1964,”; “Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote,”; “The Search of Averroës,”; “The South,”; “25 August 1983,”; “Ulrica,”; A Universal History of Infamy; “Utopia of a Man Who Is Tired,”; “The Witness,”; “The Zahir,”
Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
Boudjedra, Rachid
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
Bradbury, Ray; Fahrenheit; The Martian Chronicles; “There Will Come Soft Rains,”; “Usher II,”
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André, Anthologie de l’humour noir
Bringing Up Baby
British Library
Brodsky, Joseph
Brooke, Rupert
Browne, Thomas
Buddha, sense of humor in
Bunyan, John
Burgon, J. W.
Büring, Johann Gottfried
Burroughs, William
Burson-Marsteller company
Butler, Samuel
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Caillois, Roger