Tigers in Literature
The big cat here is Shere Kahn, the villain from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), but see also the growling metaphor from Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize winner Life of Pi.
But my favorite tigers in literature belong to the early 1900s Argentinian metafiction writer Jorge Luis Borges, who was obsessed with them. They pop up regularly in his work. Here's a short story about tigers. (Borges only wrote short stories; you might start with his Ficciones (1944), which is totally awesome.) The Spanish author Cortazar also wrote about tigers (as part of his lifelong conversation with Borges' ghost); his terrifically weird Cronopios and Famas (1962) describes one family's difficulties in lodging a tiger.
Finally, note that Tigger is, technically, probably, a tiger.
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