There is a threshold, in the night, that almost no one can consciously cross. Jorge Luis Borges knows it well — and in this extraordinary volume, he crosses it with the lucidity of one who has made the labyrinth his home.

Book of Dreams is a unique anthology: a collection of dreams narrated by the greats of literature and thought — from Kafka to De Quincey, from Coleridge to Swedenborg, from Lewis Carroll to Virginia Woolf — selected and introduced by Borges with his unmistakable encyclopedic and ironic intelligence. Not a treatise on the oneiric, but a secret map of human imagination: dreams as a form of literature, literature as a form of dream.

A book to keep on your nightstand or to give to those who read with an open mind. Adelphi edition, in Italian.