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Sympathy for literature’s least heroic characters
- jhbadger 7y agoAlberto Manguel, who wrote the book being discussed, is a co-author of the classic "Dictionary of Imaginary Places", which was an encyclopedia that covered places described in fiction. These days, when video games and TV shows have their own wikis, maybe this doesn't seem very unusual, but it was pretty novel when it was first published in 1980.