Throughout his career as a writer, Alberto Manguel has dedicated an important space to the subject of books and reading, one of the great passions of his life. In For every time there is a book, some reflections and small homages of Manguel to the literature dialogue with the original photographs of Alvaro Alejandro, whose look also poses on very diverse variants of what can represent our relation with the reading. Thus, Alejandro catches a mousetrap that instead of cheese attracts its potential victims with a book, or a book that lies next to a naked woman, as if it wanted to seduce it or to compete with her in levels of eroticism. For every time there is a book is both a record and a tribute to that object that, despite the multiple threats on its extinction, continues to form a fundamental part of our society and our culture. And as Alberto Manguel explains, many things can change,...read more