The Book of Imaginary Beings, Borges's compendium of fantastic animals, tells of dragons and Goofangs and fishes in trees. But, writes Caspar Henderson , nature's marvels are even more extraordinary ...

The Book of Imaginary Beings Jorge Luis Borges, with Margarita Guerrero; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley; illustrated by Peter Sis Viking: 236 pp., $25.95 Transformative moments - Los ...

I t is not the reading that matters,” declares a character in Jorge Luis Borges’s “A Weary Man’s Utopia” (from his volume The Book of Sand), “but the rereading”.I’ve applied this ...

Reviewing Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Book of Imaginary Beings” in The New Yorker in 1970, George Steiner wrote: ... More: Jorge Luis Borges. Read More. Pop Music. Lorde Strips Down to Start Over.

After Jorge Luis Borges assembled his “Book of Imaginary Beings” in 1957, he invited his readers to dip into its collection of 120 mythical and folkloric beasts at random, “Just as one plays ...

Borges’s words are so nuanced and subtle that at times I longed for a book in my hands to study them, visually — until I remembered Borges wrote many of these poems without ever being able to ...

Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, the last and most lost city on this continent: an imaginary city on a river so wide its other shore is invisible, a city poised on the edge of a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Writer Jorge Luis Borges is being celebrated by Google on Wednesday ...

Jorge Luis Borges is 68 and has been publishing poetry, "fictions," and essays since the early twenties. North American readers have discovered the Argentine's magic only in the last few years.

Although this strange and lovely book is most immediately influenced by Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Book of Imaginary Beings,” the English writer Caspar Henderson reaches even farther back for ...

Book of a lifetime: Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. From The Independent archive: Richard Gwyn learns from Borges that instead of writing big books, we can just pretend that they exist, with the ...