Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999)
Autor(a) de The Invention of Morel
About the Author
Adolfo Bioy Casares has collaborated with Jorge Luis Borges on a number of works. They compiled Anthology of Fantastic Literature (1940), a documentation of the development of Spanish American suprarealism, and Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi (1981), a playful and inventive variation on the mostrar mais theme of the detective who cannot visit the scene of the crime. Bioy Casares's numerous works are characterized by intelligence and a sense of playful fantasy. The Invention of Morel (1953), concerns a scientist's illusions about immortality. Asleep in the Sun is a bizarre tale written in an epistolary form. Ultimately the recipient of the letter is left to wonder whether, in fact, the puzzle has any solution or whether, like much of Bioy Casares's and Borges's work, it is an inside joke between author and reader. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Adolfo Bioy Casares
Los mejores cuentos policiales 1 — Editor — 11 exemplares
Obras completas de Adolfo Bioy Casares – Volume B - 1959-1971 (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 8 exemplares
ALIAS - OBRA COMPLETA EN COLABORACIÓN 6 exemplares
Obras completas de Adolfo Bioy Casares. Volume C - 1972-1999 (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 4 exemplares
Adversos milagros : relatos 3 exemplares
Antologia de literatura fantastica argentina: Narradores del siglo XX (Grandes obras de la literatura universal, volume… (1973) 2 exemplares
The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink {short story} 2 exemplares
La Invención y la trama (II) 2 exemplares
Una muñeca rusa 2 exemplares
De jardines ajenos 1997 1 exemplar
The Invention of Morel | A Plan for Escape 1 exemplar
Bioy & Borges - obra completa em colaboração 1 exemplar
MÁSCARA VENECIANAS, LA SIERVA AJENA (PE2L39) 1 exemplar
Venetian Masks 1 exemplar
Plano de Evasão Livro 1 1 exemplar
A máquina fantástica 1 exemplar
Plano de Evasão 1 exemplar
La nueva tormenta; o 1 exemplar
Obras completas: Cuentos 1 exemplar
Paginas de Adolfo Bioy Casares (Coleccion Escritores Argentinos de Hoy) (Spanish Edition) (1985) 1 exemplar
La Invención y la trama. Tomo II 1 exemplar
La trama celeste y otros relatos. Antología 1 exemplar
Romans 1 exemplar
Memorias (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar
Historias fantásticas 1 exemplar
A Inven©ʹ©Đo de Morel 1 exemplar
Antología universal del relato fantástico 1 exemplar
Últimas Novelas (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar
¿Quién mató a Rosendo? 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Die Geschichtenerzähler: Neues und Unbekanntes von Allende bis Zafón (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (2008) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Opowieści Niesamowite Z Hispanoameryki 1 exemplar
Argentinische Kurzgeschichten / Narradores argentinos. by ANTONIO DI BENEDETTO, ADOLFO BIOY CASARES, JORGE LUIS BORGES,… (1991) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo
- Outros nomes
- Bustos Domecq, Honorio (w/ Jorge Luis Borges)
Miranda, Javier
Sacastru, Martin - Data de nascimento
- 1914-09-15
- Data de falecimento
- 1999-03-08
- Localização do túmulo
- Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentinië
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Argentinië
- País (no mapa)
- Argentina
- Local de nascimento
- Buenos Aires, Argentinië
- Local de falecimento
- Buenos Aires, Argentinië
- Locais de residência
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Educação
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Ocupações
- writer (fiction)
journalist
translator
editor
poet
critic (mostrar todos 7)
librarian - Relações
- Ocampo, Silvina (echtg.)
Borges, Jorge Luis (vriend en pseudoniem-genoot: H. Bustos Domecq) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (1975)
French Légion d'honneur (1981)
Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986)
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1990)
Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura (1941)
Diamond Konex Award of Literature (1994)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 130
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 6,930
- Popularidade
- #3,528
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 163
- ISBN
- 528
- Línguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 10
Early in the novella the protagonist writes in his diary, "I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness."
This avenue of chasing immortality is still traveled today, usually with the idea of uploading a person's consciousness into some kind of computer device, leaving the physical body behind. Casares here invents a different attempt at traveling this path.
This then serves as the philosophical backbone of the novella, which adopts the trappings of an adventure story, much to the pleasure of Borges, who in his prologue praises such adventure stories as Kafka's "The Trial" and Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" in addition to "The Invention of Morel" for their admirable plots, contrasting them favorably with the "chaotic" and "formless" psychological novel so much in vogue, drearily and tediously aiming to be realistic. Borges will have no truck with realistic tedium, and recommends this story to us as its perfect opposite.… (mais)