The Book of Imaginary Beings
Borges's bestiary of creatures dreamed up across world literature and myth, catalogued with deadpan erudition.
Borges assembles a bestiary of creatures imagined by humanity across centuries and cultures, from the Chinese Fox and the Norse Kraken to beings invented by Kafka and C.S. Lewis. Each entry is brief, precise, and quietly funny, written with the authority of a scholar cataloguing things that never existed. It is Borges at his most playful and most erudite. Guillermo del Toro named it his favourite Borges, calling him the curator of miscellanea and the erudite Virgil of the dreamtime.
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Guillermo del Toro
My favorite Borges is the curator of miscellanea: the erudite Virgil of the dreamtime.
Tweet · February 2016
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