Imaginary Beings

After a recent trip to the American Natural History Museum, David found himself with a copy of The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges. This is a stylish reprint and translation of a Spanish original, published in 1967.

Imaginary Beings presents an unusual blend of poetry and encyclopedia, with each thoughtful entry introducing a new inhabitant of the worlds of myth or literature.
Borges doesn’t bother with arch cleverness, and instead takes a mild and sensitive approach to each being as it passes. Although this is no true encyclopedia of the world’s monsters, it will make an interested reader smile as he turns the pages.

~ by keckd on November 27, 2007.