The Book Of Imaginary Beings Jorge Luis Borges

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The Book Of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

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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.

The Book Of Imaginary Beings Summary

The Book Of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

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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 speculation. Only 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 *

About Jorge Luis Borges

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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GOR001470986

ISBN 13

9780099442639

ISBN 10

0099442639

Title

The Book Of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20020905

Number of pages

176

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