Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, both in Argentina and farther afield. Topics covered include Bioy's meditations on isolation and logic, and his enduring fascination with the impact of photography on all artistic representation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- Note on translations
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Rethinking Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Chapter 1: Adolfo Bioy Casares: a biographical sketch
- Chapter 2: Borges’s appendix: reflections on Bioy’s diary
- Chapter 3: Bioy and Borges: from the third man to the world of Bustos Domecq
- Chapter 4: Every man is an island: Bioy’s fiction
- Chapter 5: 1969: youth and rebellion in Diario de la guerra del cerdo and Invasión
- Chapter 6: The fantastic in Bioy’s short stories
- Chapter 7: Bioy, Ocampo and the photographic image
- Chapter 8: To love in the infinitive: time, image and the powers of the false in La invención de Morel
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