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Curiosity Book Description: Curiosity is a dazzling journey in the history of literature, culture, religion and politics, under the guidance of Dante. Alberto Manguel, the author of unforgettable books on the history and magic of books, libraries and reading, follows Dante and his Divine Comedy as a guide in Curiosity and pursues the concept of curiosity and his own curiosity. Throughout this reading and interpretation adventure, questions like "What is language?", "What is truth?", "What is an animal?" In seventeen chapters, in which he asks seventeen questions such as: from injustice to ecology, from money to death, from the Odyssey to sacred texts, from Don Quixote to Alice in Wonderland, he visits many books and shows that curiosity is “rewarded with the appetite to ask more questions and the pleasure of chatting with others.” " is showing. Reading Manguel is like taking a stroll around the city or having an unhurried meal together with a wise, cosmopolitan friend... The Economist (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by Yapı Kredi Publications and written by Alberto Manguel, is now on Books in the World.