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The Book of the Imaginary Beings

Book Review by: Pacosantos     

Original Authors: Borges; Jorge Luis
This abstract was translated from El libro de los seres imaginarios
It is a wonderful treatyto describes in detail the characteristics and the life of hundred of fabulous animals. With the
purpose of obtaining information successfully, the author hasbeen briefin a varity trustworthy sources, and thusthe workabound as muchin appointments of historians asin storiesof the most known classic authorsof alltimes and from all over the world. you glimpse atdifferent monsters and beings pertaining to different mythologies, from the Nordic to the pre-Columbian one,going through the greco-roman one, India, the Arab, the Chinese and the African, between many others. They either do not lack the beings who have always populated from thebasic writing-desksand the traditions that compose themain religionsof the world. And can befind the contemporary animal descriptions as well, like those of improbablemembers of thefauna of the United States. Thus, in these pages we will findthe A Bao A Qu, a being who is being completed itself as one raises by the stairs; the Fastitocalón, the powerful whale that floatsresembling to be an island, theNesnás, beings similar tomen but whojust have onehalves of the men's body; the Mirmecoleón, an improbable animal a half lion, and a half an ant; and the Catoblepas, being that would killus with its glance only because it has a so heavy head that it mustdrag itall along. We will see creatures known by ussuch as:the Fairies, the Elfos, the Dragoon, the Nymphs, the Faucet, the Minotauro, the Esfinge even though, animals imagined by writers like Franz Kafka, C.S.Lewis, H.G.Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe. In fact, we arein front ofa book to be consulted frequently. Although the vestiges of the beliefs that accompany the men form the beginning of times can be init, and the interesting points in common that some beings of opposed parts of the planet presentor display, the book can be transformedin entertainment intoits purer state.
Published: December 26, 2006
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