Every text assumes a reader. - Alberto Manguel

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Every text assumes a reader.

Alberto Manguel

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Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. In 1982 Manguel moved to Toronto, Canada and lived there (with a brief European period) until 2000. He has been a Canadian citizen ever since.

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We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

Every text assumes a reader. - Alberto Manguel

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