The Book of Imaginary Beings - Brossura

Borges, Jorge Luis

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ISBN 10: 0525475389 ISBN 13: 9780525475385

Casa editrice: E P Dutton, 1979

Riassunto

The book of imaginary beings is Borges's whimsical compendium of more than a hundred of "the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." Imbued with Borges's characteristic wit and 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 drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Pliny, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and C. S. Lewis, among others. Here readers will find the familiar and expected Dragons and Centaurs, Unicorns and Gnomes, as well as the less familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Live in the Mirror, The Elephant That Prefigured the Birth of Buddha, the Hairy Beast of La Ferte-Bernard, and other undeniably curious creatures. Throughout, Borges's cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.

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Book by Jorge Luis Borges Margarita Guerrero Norman Thomas

Su questa edizione

• Editore: E P Dutton
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0525475389
• ISBN 13: 9780525475385
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile