A Reading Diary
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A Reading Diary is a book by Alberto Manguel.
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On the theme of time suspended
• Bioy Casares, “The Perjury of the Snow”
• Kobo Abe, Woman in the Dunes
• Perrault, “Sleeping Beauty”
• Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
• Alfonso el Sabio, the fable of the singing bird that makes a hundred years seem like a few minutes, in Las Partidas
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On places that cannot be left
• Leon Bloy, “The Captives of Longjumeau”
• Bunuel, The Exterminating Angel
• Hans Christian Andersen, “The Snow Queen”
• Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”
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On places that cannot be reached
- Lord Dunsany, “Carcassonne”
- André Dhôtel, Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais
- Sir Thomas Bulfinch, My Heart's in the Highlands
- Book of Genesis, the Promised Land (for Moses)
- Kurt Weill, “Youkali”
- Kafka, The Castle
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