Spanish / Colombia
El libro que imaginas
(The book you imagine)
Sanín, Carolina
(text)
Guevara, Santiago
(illus.)
Bogotá: Babel Libros, 2024. – 111 p. + [18] p.
(Series: Frontera X)
ISBN 978-628-7609-20-4
Imagination | Philosophy | Non-fiction
Reading age: 13+
White Ravens issue: 2024
What does it mean to imagine something? In a clever, imaginative way Carolina Sanín delves deeply into this seemingly simple question by asking many further questions. These are meant to shake up the readers, get them thinking and make them look at supposed certainties from different sides. Does imagining something mean coming up with something new? Discovering or inventing something? Where does what we imagine come from and where does it go to? Does it exist outside of our imaginations? Am I all the things that I have imagined? How is it possible to imagine something without knowing what it is called? This highly stimulating book poses brilliant questions without supplying any answers. In their search for answers, readers must dive into fundamental philosophical problems about thought, imagination, perception, being, self, the other and the world. For all of them Santiago Guevara has created black-and-white drawings which perfectly correspond to the open-ended, associative style of the text. [JW]