The Book Of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
Few readers will want, or be able, to resist this modern bestiary. Here you will find the familiar - Gryphons, Minotaurs and Unicorns - as well as the Monkey of the inkpot and other undeniably curious beasts. Borges' cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
It's a book I look forward to as research, but even more as a kid-at-heart fan of the unnatural, the impossible, the feared -- Andrew Pyper
He is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature who has vastly enriched the textures of vocabulary of our fantasies and speculationOnly Borges could dream the world with such intellectual rigour * Ian McEwan *
Borges is a genius of the first order -- Martin Amis
One of Borges's great creations... The Book of Imaginary Beings tosses stone after stone into the subterranean caverns of the reader's mind. It takes us along passageways and turns corners to reveal strange shapes and images, some of which may precede and outlast anything conceived by man * Guardian *
Jorge Luis Borges, the century's most flagrant, ingenious and industrious compiler of manuscripts that fall short of reality * New York Times *
He is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature who has vastly enriched the textures of vocabulary of our fantasies and speculationOnly Borges could dream the world with such intellectual rigour * Ian McEwan *
Borges is a genius of the first order -- Martin Amis
One of Borges's great creations... The Book of Imaginary Beings tosses stone after stone into the subterranean caverns of the reader's mind. It takes us along passageways and turns corners to reveal strange shapes and images, some of which may precede and outlast anything conceived by man * Guardian *
Jorge Luis Borges, the century's most flagrant, ingenious and industrious compiler of manuscripts that fall short of reality * New York Times *
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written: 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. [He] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction...'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099442639 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099442639 |
| Title | The Book Of Imaginary Beings |
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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