Celebrated bibliophile tells Jaipur literature festival his books library is an autobiography, and if The Alchemist is in yours he will recoil
The Argentinian-born bibliophile Alberto Manguel was on spiky form on the second day of the ZEE Jaipur literature festival, laying into Amazon and his fellow Latin American Paulo Coelho during a discussion placidly titled The Library at Night. He revealed that he regarded his own library of 35,000 to 40,000 books, housed in an old presbytery in rural France, as a type of autobiography.
A personal library offers a portrait of a person, he joked. “If I go into someone’s house and see more Plato than Aristotle I see a friend. If I see the works of Paulo Coelho I have great trouble regarding [my host] as a friend.”
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