
Starting from Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings – a work that weave together myths, tales and stories of certain creatures that occupied the world with humans – and assuming a Foucauldian perspective, this article explores the process through which living beings fit into the realms of reality and fiction. The works of Borges and Foucault, we will argue, question the order of things, promoting other spaces that shake the current parameters of categorization of the world.