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30 March 2008

Massey Lectures 2007: The City of Words, Lecture 1

We strive to build societies with sets of values we can all agree on. But has the multicultural experiment gone awry? In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at living peacefully together. From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don Quixote to The Fast Runner, Alberto Manguel explores how books and stories hold the secret keys to what binds us. In this first lecture Manguel revisits the mythological Cassandra and the significance of her curse not being heard. Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading.

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Further Information

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Publications

Title: The City of Words:Understanding civilisation through story
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Queensland University Press

Music

CD title: Towards the sea
Track title: Sonate pour flute et harpe, Adagio - presto
Artist: Robert Aitken/ Erica Goodman
Composer: Jean-Michel Damase
CD details: Grammofon AB BIS, Djursholm: BIS CD 650

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