El libro de los seres imaginarios [por] Jorge Luis Borges, con la colaboración de Margarita Guerreo.

Description

The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an immortal bird that makes its nest in the tree of science") and "The Zaratan" (a particularly cunning whale) in An Anthology of Fantastic Zoology in 1954. He added 34 more (and illustrations) for a 1967 edition, giving it the present title, and it was published in English in 1969. This edition, with fresh translations from Borges's Collected Fictions translator Hurley, and new illustrations from Caldecott-winner Sis, gives the beings new life. They prove the perfect foils for classic Borgesian musings on everything from biblical etymology to the underworld, giving the creatures particularly (and, via Sis, whimsically) vivid and perfectly scaled shape. "We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe," Borges (1899-1986) and Guerrero write in a preface, and the genius of this book is that it seems to easily contain the latter within it.

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Other Editions

• El libro de los seres imaginarios [por] Jorge Luis Borges, con la colaboración de Margarita Guerreo.: Ilus. de Baldessari.Editorial Kier1967-01-01
• El libro de los seres imaginariosEditorial Kier1967-01-01
• The book of imaginary beingsAvon1969-01-01
• The book of imaginary beingsDutton1969-01-01
• The Book of Imaginary BeingsPaperbackPenguin1974-01-01
• Het Boek van de Denkbeeldige WezensPaperbackDe Bezige Bij1976-01-01