Enjoy The Book Of Imaginary Beings Presented By Jorge Luis Borges Contained In Copy

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گوگولیترینشون که عاشقش شدم جانور گریان بود:
این جانور به خاطر پوست نامطلوب و زشتی که پوشیده از دانه و زگیل است جانوری غمگین و گوشهگیر است و به همین دلیل اگر بخواهد جایی برود معمولا گرگ و میش از خانهاش بیرون میآید این جانور ناخوشترین حیوانات است. چون این جانور دائما میگرید شکارچیان ماهر در ردگیری به آسانی میتوانند رد او را روی زمین از جای اشکهایش پیدا کنند. اگر این جانور را گوشهای گرفتار کنید که راه گریز نداشته باشد و یا اگر از چیزی بترسد و یا غافلگیر شود میتواند خود را در اشکهایش حل کند
Here's theE. P. Dutton amp Co. hardcover I haverd printing,pages, which isn't listed here on Goodreads, I see others have their copies tagged as "illustrated," though mine's not, unfortunately,

Full review to come,

.Stars. Excepcional recopilación, fantasía pura, El dragón, el unicornio, el fénix y muchos otros, como criaturas imaginadas por Kafka o Lewis Carroll son descritas con un prisma diferente.
También editado con el nombre de Manual de zoología fantástica Compararlo con Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos de la saga de Harry Potter Bitch, please.
Το ερωτεύτηκα αυτό το βιβλίο φέτος το καλοκαίρι. Μέσα σεσελίδες σου δίνει μια σαγηνευτική "περίληψη" από το παραμυθι κάθε σημαντικόυ πλάσματος της παγκόσμιας μυθολογίας, από τον Πήγασσο και τη Μέδουσα μέχρι τον Βασιλίσκο και το Α Μπαου Α Κου. Η ταλαντούχα πένα του Μπόρχες μου έκλεψε την καρδιά, ίσως ότι διασκεδαστικότερο έπεσε στα χέρια μου τα τελευταία χρόνια. While not as intricately surreal or consistently striking as his short storiesnor as illuminating and erudite as his literary criticisms and commentarynor yet as mellifluous and mystical as his archly arcane poetryJorge Luis Borgess Book of Imaginary Beings is something entirely its own: an encyclopædia of imagination let loose an encomium of the otherworldly a wacky wax museum of phantasmagoria and a carnival collection of grotesqueries a madcap compendium of sheer, uncanny creation.
It is both extraordinarily entertaining andbecause this is Borges, after alldelightfully eclectic, too,

The lushly drawn pages of Imaginary Beings are populated by a multifarious menagerie of miscellaneous monsters, critters, creatures, beasts, and all manner of other sundry megafauna lifted from mythology, theology, folklore, and myriad archaic oral traditions of ancient fireside yarnspinnings.
Here there be dragonsyesbut also hordes and thickets of other beasts, be they of land, water, air or fire.
And although many of

these will be familiar to most readers the Dragon, Sphinx, and Basilisk, the threeheaded hellhound Cerberus, one of the things that makes this book so enjoyable is that even the familiar entries are accompanied by the kind of fascinatingly esoteric interpolations that only a mind as nimble and omnivorous as Borgess could provide: strange and uncanny origin stories that delve back into the mists of time oddly archaic etymologies disparate cultural rootsand again, because this is Borgesobscure references to previously unheardof authors for me these includedamongst many othersIsidore of Seville, and Konrad von Gesner and part of the fun was tracking down the referenced works to see whether theyre actually “real,” or mere Borgesian redherrings, as well as many others whom youll likely have heard of, though maybe not have been aware that they contributed to the mythological canon of suchandsuch a creature eg Livy, St.
Augustine, Sir Richard Burton, Carl Jung, etcetera,

in Imaginary Beings, in contrast to much of Borgess short fiction, the references do seem to be genuine.
But, as I havent yet checked out every reference, who knowsmaybe he smuggled some real red herrings in after all


There will also undoubtedly be many creatures with which youre entirely unfamiliar: the A Bao A Qu, the Kami, the Amphisbæna, the Garuda though not if youve read Miévilles Perdido Street Station, of course, the Lamed Wufniks one of my favorites!, the Squonk which is also known by its Latin name, lacrimacorpus dissolvens who knew, the Youwarkee, and many, many more.
For Gene Wolfe fans, there are also entries on the Baldanders and the Talos!

Imaginary Beings can be read front to back, in alphabetical order, or you can hop around, reading what you find most interesting first and then moving outwards to explore the rest in the foreword Borges writes, “our wish would be that the curious dip into it from time to time in much the way one visits the changing forms revealed by the kaleidoscope”.
I skipped around a bit at first and then read it straight through, finding it an incredibly fun and fascinating read.
Its one of those books that you know youll want to jump back into frequently, just to have a look around, reread and rediscover.


The imaginary beings included are given anywhere from a couple paragraphs to a couple pages of explanation, historical and literary references, etc.
, by Borges, and a few of the beings are also accompanied by illustrations,

Which brings me to my only complaint about this book or rather, this edition of this book, and it isnt anything to do with Borges, but with the socalled “deluxe” edition I got published by Penguin Classics.
I bought this edition specifically because I thought there would be more and better and more deluxe! illustrations than in other, non“deluxe” editions.
Alas, the pictures included by artist Peter Sís appear infrequently, with maybe one illustration for every ten or more entries, and are disappointingly blandwhich seems especially odd given that Borges in particular is a writer whom I would expect to be paired with intricate, bold and baroque artwork, to match the style of his writing.
Instead what you get is a smattering of lumpen creatures abstracted to the point of being lifeless and unexcitingthe opposite of what youd want or anticipate in an otherwise splendid book which describes many of the most fantastical creatures the human mind has ever conjured.


Still, Im definitely happy I bought it, Sure, if I had a mulligan Id spring for a different edition, but the important part of the book is the writing, and Borges, as ever, doesnt disappoint.
Its a crazily eclectic compendium that I know Ill be exploring and reexploring for years to come and though my son is a little too old and too cool for it at the moment, Ive got plenty of nieces and nephews who are just the right age!

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out ofstars, rounded down tofor too few and, in my opinion, not very good illustrations,
A terrific read!.