Book of Imaginary Beings

by Jorge Luis Borges · 1967

A wry bestiary cataloguing the fantastic creatures dreamed up across the world's myths and literatures.

Books that mention Book of Imaginary Beings (2)

• Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami: “One was Archaeology of Animals, by Burtland Cooper, and the other Jorge Luis Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings.”
• Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Borges essay: 'Borges in his Fantastic Zoology'”