The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Andrew Hurley and Illustrated by Peter Sís
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’ whimsical compendium of more than a hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination.” Imbued with Borges’ characteristic wit an erudition, this unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together in one delightful encyclopedia the fantastical inventions from the Kabbalah, Homer, Pliny, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll. Kafka, and C.S. Lewis, among others. Here, readers will find the familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Love in the Mirrors, The Elephant That Prefigured the Birth of Buddha, The Lamed Wufniks, and the Hairy Beast of La Ferte Bernard. Throughout, Borges’ cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’ whimsical compendium of more than a hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination.” Imbued with Borges’ characteristic wit an erudition, this unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together in one delightful encyclopedia the fantastical inventions from the Kabbalah, Homer, Pliny, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll. Kafka, and C.S. Lewis, among others. Here, readers will find the familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Love in the Mirrors, The Elephant That Prefigured the Birth of Buddha, The Lamed Wufniks, and the Hairy Beast of La Ferte Bernard. Throughout, Borges’ cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’ whimsical compendium of more than a hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination.” Imbued with Borges’ characteristic wit an erudition, this unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together in one delightful encyclopedia the fantastical inventions from the Kabbalah, Homer, Pliny, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll. Kafka, and C.S. Lewis, among others. Here, readers will find the familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Love in the Mirrors, The Elephant That Prefigured the Birth of Buddha, The Lamed Wufniks, and the Hairy Beast of La Ferte Bernard. Throughout, Borges’ cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986 published numerous collections of poems, essays, and fiction. Director of the National Library of Buenos Aires from 1955 to 1973, Borges was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from both Columbia and Oxford Universities. He received various literary awards over the course of his career, including the International Publishers’ Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize.
