"Imaginary Animals" is a collection of stories co-written by the Argentinian poet, novelist, critic, and translator Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero, masters of Spanish literature. The collection of stories depicts various creatures imagined by humans, various rare birds and animals, and even some unclassifiable beings, such as Abao Aku, metaphysical animals, Kafka's imaginary animals, plant sheep Borametz, hundred-headed fish, ghost-eating monsters, clones, dragons, phoenixes, gluttons, griffins, black monkeys, goblin Nomu, clay golems, giant Humbaba, giant bull Kuyusa, unicorns, and titles. Tailed snakes... They may exist in the myths and legends of various peoples around the world, or appear in classic documents and literary works, or spread in hearsay, anecdotes, or appear in human dreams. All of them seem to be well-founded, but they are also the product of a mixture of curiosity, imagination, deduction, dreams, and illusions, or out of love, belief, hope, or avoidance, worry, and fear. The collection of stories includes 116 stories, and there are more than 116 kinds of things described. Some articles write about several animals of the same kind or related ones. As Borges said, this book collects "strange creatures bred by human imagination over the passage of time and space."
Reader comments
This book is like a mysterious zoo, and the animals in it are the crystallization of human imagination! Each animal has its own unique story, some interesting and some magical. I especially like the descriptions of dragons and phoenixes in the book, it feels like they really exist. But I kind of hate the character named Abao Aku. He is always elusive and makes people feel scared. Overall, this book is very interesting and allowed me to see the infinite imagination of human beings!
This book is like a mysterious zoo, and the animals in it are the crystallization of human imagination! Each animal has its own unique story, some interesting and some magical. I especially like the descriptions of dragons and phoenixes in the book, it feels like they really exist. But I kind of hate the character named Abao Aku. He is always elusive and makes people feel scared. Overall, this book is very interesting and allowed me to see the infinite imagination of human beings!