A Reader on Reading

Just society: apology and repentance in; and denial of culpable events; Don Quixote’s pursuit of; and Socrates’ truth-sayers

Kabbalists

Kafka, Franz

Kalyana Malla

Kama Sutra

Kant, Immanuel

Keats, John

Kent, William

Kierkegaard, Søren

Kipling, Rudyard; “Without Benefit of Clergy,”

Knobelsdorff, Georg Wenzeslaus

Kodama, Maria

Kott, Jan, The Essence of Theatre

Krugman, Paul

Lagarde, Christine

Lamartine, Alphonse de

Lamb, Charles and Mary

Lamed Wufniks

La Nación

Language: dogmatic; erotic; fixed languages; infinite vocabulary, translation of; word games,. See also Literature; Reading; Writing

La Prensa

Laughlin, Robert

Lawrence, D. H.; “The Prussian Officer,”; Women in Love

Learning. See Education

Leavitt, David, The Lost Language of Cranes

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Le Monde

Lerner, Isaias

Leroux, Gaston

Lesbianism

Lessing, Doris

Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, Rabbi

Lewis, C. S., Out of the Silent Planet

Libanius, Apology of Socrates

Libraries: Bibliothèque nationale de France; British Library; cataloguing methods in; as collective memory; constraints on traditional; digital; and exclusion; as home; ideal; Library of Alexandria; library of Don Quixote; of the mind; universal; virtual

Literature: anonymous authors; erotic (see Erotic literature); Greek; as intellectual property; metaphoric; moral questions posed by; narrative voice in; renewing and redefining experience in; survival of; testamentary works; Wandering Jew in,. See also Reading; Writing

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Lord, Albert B.

Lostal, Sauli (pseudonym)

Lourenço, Eduardo

Lucentini, Franco

Lynch, Marta

Mad Hatter

Mahler, Gustav

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Mallea, Eduardo

Mandelstam, Nadezhda, Hope Against Hope

Mandelstam, Osip

Manguel, Alberto: becoming a writer; in Canada; at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aries; The Dictionary of Imaginary Places; high school teacher of; home library of; Into the Looking-Glass Wood, x; Jewish identity of; News from a Foreign Country Came; in Paris and London; Yourcenar translation of

Manguel, Pablo

Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice

Manutius, Aldus

Manutius, Aldus, the Younger

Mao Tsetung

March Hare

Martial

Marx, Karl

Masson, Paul

Maugham, Somerset

Maupin, Armistead, Tales of the City

Maximus of Constantinople, Saint

Mayan language, translation of

Mazzanti, Enrico

Melville, Herman; Moby-Dick

Memory: books; and commemoration; electronic; false; library as; and library of the mind; perseverance of

Menchú, Rigoberta

Menem, Carlos

Mengele, Josef

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

Merwin, W. S.

Metaphor

Metonymy

Meyrink, Gustav

Miami News

Michaux, Henri

Michelangelo

Midrash

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Miller, Henry

Milton, John, Paradise Lost

Minnereden

Misogyny

“Misterio de la cruz” (attributed to Borges)

Monetary value: of art; precedence of; profit vs. creativity

Montaigne, Michel de

Montesquieu, baron de

Montezuma, treasure of

Montoya, Antonio Ruiz de

Monuments, commemorative

Moravia, Alberto; The Conformist

More, Thomas, Utopia

Moses

Muhammad

Munro, Alice, “Material,” 18

Murat, Ulises Petit de

Nabokov, Vladimir; Lolita; on translation

Narrative voice

National Commission on Disappeared People

Nazi Germany

Nazism, Borges’s attack on

Nefzawi, Sheik al-, Perfumed Garden

Neruda, Pablo

Nervo, Amado

New York Times

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nin, Anaïs

Nineveh, city of (biblical)

Nooteboom, Cees, In the Dutch Mountains

Novalis

Nuovi argomenti

Nyssen, Hubert

Ocampo, Silvina

Ocampo, Victoria

Odyssey (Homer); blindness in; Dante’s version of; false beginnings and endings in; Plato’s version of; Proteus in; on scrolls; Sirens’ song in

Old Testament: Adam’s naming task; blindness in; Creation; Garden of Eden; Jonah story

Ongania, Juan Carlos

Otero, Blas de

Ouri, Rabbi

Ovid; Ars amatoria

Oviedo, Fernández de

Ozick, Cynthia; “The Pagan Rabbi,”

Page: codex; defined; dual nature of; scroll; shape of; Sumerian; and textual design; turning of

Paglia, Camille

Pailler, Jean-Marie

Palacios, Alfredo

Papyrus

Parchment

Parry, Milman

Paul, Saint

Pavese, Cesare

Paz, Octavio

Peacock, Thomas Love, Nightmare Abbey

Perec, Georges, La Disparition

Peregil, Francisco

Perkins, Maxwell

Perón, Isabel

Perón, Juan Domingo, pro-Nazi activities of

Peru, Vargas Llosa’s comparison of Argentina and

Peyrefitte, Roger, Particular Friendships

Pharmaceutical companies, AIDS drugs of

Philip II of Spain

Philippe, Charles-Louis, Bubu de Montparnasse

Phillips, David Atlee

Piñón, Nélida

Pinter, Harold

Pizarnik, Alejandra

Plato; Apology; Republic

Plural

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetry: defined; gay; impact on worldly events; metonymy; Pound’s editing of The Wasteland; wordplay in

Politkovskaya, Anna

Polo, Marco

Pope, Alexander

Pornography: defined; vs. erotic literature