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The Book of Imaginary Beings

By Jorge Luis Borges

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the bestiary of a master fantasist

THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS, said Benjamin DeMott in The New York Times, "is an astonishing 'construct'--and the brave, beautiful man behind it ranks among the few perfectly composed, thoroughly fascinating literary intelligences alive."

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the bestiary of a master fantasist

THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS, said Benjamin DeMott in The New York Times, "is an astonishing 'construct'--and the brave, beautiful man behind it ranks among the few perfectly composed, thoroughly fascinating literary intelligences alive."

Borges draws on sources ranging from Chinese legends to the works of Kafka and C. S. Lewis. In the lucid, razor-sharp prose that distinguishes all his work, he reports on beasts as diverse as the Chilean Chonchon, which is shaped like a human head, the huge ears serving as wings for its flight on moonless nights; and the homely and mournful Squonk of Pennsylvania, which thwarts capture by dissolving itself in its own tears. Stanton Hoffman said in the Nation, "THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS is more than a Borgesian entertainment, its real justification lies in its relationship to Borges' other work, especially to those pervasive themes and metaphors which seem to me to establish Borges' singularity and importance as a writer. . .the encyclopedia as art,"

*** The NY Times is italicized in the original ***
*** Chonchon has accent over the second "o" ***
*** Nation is italicized in the original ***

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  • Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Imaginary Beings

    Ben Granger Borges is that rare writer, one who can truly change your outlook forever. To read Labyrinths or Ficciones is to experience the universe anew, to find a poetry in mathematics, a mysticism in reason. In tales like "Funes the Memorious", "T ... (read full critics)

    spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • The Book of Imaginary Beings

    The Book of Imaginary Beings Jorge Luis Borges Penguin Paperback 256 pages September 2006 Borges collects these 116 imagined creatures from various mythologies and writers, from ancient times to the beginning of the twentieth century. There are fanta ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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