The Book of Imaginary Beings: An endlessly inventive and fantastical bestiary from the writer who imagined The Library of Babel - Couverture souple

Borges, Jorge Luis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529986370 ISBN 13 : 9781529986372

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2026

Synopsis

A dazzling catalogue of be creatures drawn from the dreamworlds of myth, folklore, and imagination

From ancient myths to obscure legends, a strange menagerie takes shape: creatures part real, part invented, drawn from cultures across the world. Each is described with care, as if it might exist just beyond the edge of belief. The Book of Imaginary Beings is Jorge Luis Borges’s playful, erudite bestiary of the fantastic. Curious and endlessly inventive, it explores the power of imagination to create entire worlds.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jorge Luis Borges (Author)
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...'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529986370
• ISBN 13: 9781529986372
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Vintage Classics; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VCL/vintage-classics/; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie