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While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's Elective Affinities ) seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living. An article in the daily paper would suddenly be illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long... read more
First Sentence
We have been in our house in France for just over a year, and already I have to leave, to visit my family in Buenos Aires.
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- Alberto Manguel (Author)
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