Bioy Casares, Adolfo

ADOLFO BIOY CASARES (1914-1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator known both for his own work and for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many awards was the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1991), the highest honour of Hispanic letters.


Bioy Casares published several books before 1940, including collections of short stories. His narratives are elegant and urbane, his style precise and streamlined, oriented toward metaphysical possibilities and employ the fantastic to achieve their meanings, as he paces his characters through seriocomic traps of fate -- ensnared by love, impelled by lust, ambition, or plain greed, even metamorphosed by pharmaceuticals.


He did not win wide notice until the publication of his best-known novel THE INVENTION OF MOREL (1940). A carefully constructed and fantastic work, it concerns a fugitive (the narrator) who has fallen in love and strives to establish contact with a woman who is eventually revealed to be only an image created by a film projector. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science fiction and terror. Borges called it a work of "reasoned imagination", linking it to H. G. Wells' oeuvre, while Octavio Paz described the novel as "perfect". It received the Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura (First Municipal Prize of Literature) in 1941. The novel A PLAN FOR ESCAPE (1945) and the six short stories of "La trama celeste" (1948) further explore imaginary worlds, tightly constructed to adhere to a fantastic logic.


Bioy Casares also collaborated with Jorge Luis Borges to publish SIX PROBLEMS FOR DON ISIDRO PARODI (1942) and CHRONICLES OF BUSTOS DOMECQ (1967), both of which satirize a variety of Argentine personalities.



The following books are in ePUB or PDF format as indicated:


* Chronicles of Bustos Domecq [with Jorge Luis Borges] (Allen Lane, 1982). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. -- PDF


* Invention of Morel, The (NYRB, 2003). Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. -- ePUB


* Invention of Morel and Other Stories, The (Texas, 1985). Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. -- PDF


* Plan for Escape, A (Graywolf, 1988). Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. -- PDF


* Russian Doll and Other Stories, A (New Directions, 1992). Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. -- ePUB


* Selected Stories (New Directions, 1994. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. -- PDF


* Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi [with Jorge Luis Borges] (Allen Lane, 1981). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. -- PDF


* Where There's Love, There's Hate [with Silvina Ocampo] (Melville House, 2013). Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. -- ePUB


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