The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture)

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The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture)
by Alberto Manguel
from House of Anansi Press

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• `.. is it possible for stories to change us and the world we live in?'
  I am reading this book for the second time: there was too much for me to consider and integrate on one reading. Alberto Manguel looks at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies. As part of this, he invites the reader to look at what is written (by visionaries, poets, novelists and essayists) and presented visually (by filmmakers) about the building of societies.
  Under the following chapter headings, we are invited to think about the future by drawing on the past to interpret the present: more info

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