by Jorge Luis Borges · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402072870
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«El libro de los seres imaginarios» is Jorge Luis Borges's fantastic bestiary, published by Bruguera in paperback (211 pages, in Spanish).
Encyclopedic catalogue of over a hundred fantastic creatures from mythologies, religions and literature: from the basilisk and the centaur to the Uroboros, the Valkyries or the beings devised by Carroll, Kafka, Wells or Flaubert. Borges, with his brief prose, shows how human imagination shapes its fears and desires.
The work was written with the collaboration of Margarita Guerrero and was originally published as «Manual de zoología fantástica» in 1957. This edition is number 33 of the Club Bruguera collection.
Title aimed at readers of mythology, folklore and fantastic literature.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
