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{{Short description|Argentine novelist (1914–1999)}}
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{{Family name hatnote|Bioy|Casares|lang=Spanish}}
| name = Adolfo Bioy Casares▼
{{Infobox person
| spouse = {{Marriage|[[Silvina Ocampo]]|1940|1993|end=d}}
▲ | notableworks = ''[[The Invention of Morel]]''
}}
| awards = [[Miguel de Cervantes Prize]] (1991)▼
==Biography==
Adolfo Bioy Casares was born on September 15, 1914, in [[Buenos Aires]], the only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares [[Patrick Lynch (Argentina)|Lynch]]. He was born in [[Recoleta, Buenos Aires|Recoleta]], a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper-class families, where he would reside the majority of his life. Due to his family's high social class, he was able to dedicate himself exclusively to [[literature]] and, at the same time, distinguish his work from the traditional literary medium of his time. He wrote his first story ("Iris y Margarita") at the age of eleven. He began his secondary education in the [[Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza]] at the [[Universidad de Buenos Aires]]. Later, he started but did not end up finishing degrees in [[law]], [[philosophy]], and [[literature]]. Fueled by disappointment with the university atmosphere, he moved to a family ranch where, when he didn't have visitors, he devoted himself almost entirely to his study of literature. By the time he reached his late twenties, he maintained proficiency in [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]] (which he spoke from the age of 4) and [[German language|German]]. Between 1929 and 1937 Bioy Casares published a number of books (''Prólogo'', ''17 disparos contra lo porvenir'', ''Caos'', ''La nueva tormenta'', ''La estatua casera'', ''Luis Greve, muerto'') that he would later disdain, restricting additional publications and refusing to discuss them, labeling all his work previous to 1940 as 'horrible'.
In 1932 he met [[Jorge Luis Borges]] at Villa Ocampo, a house in [[San Isidro Partido|San Isidro]] belonging to [[Victoria Ocampo]]. There, she often hosted different international figures and organized cultural celebrations, one of which
In 1940, he published the short novel ''[[The Invention of Morel]]'', which marked the beginning of his literary maturity. The novel's introduction was written by Borges, in which he comments on the absence of precursors to science fiction in Spanish literature, presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of a new genre. The novella was very well accepted and received the Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura (First Municipal Prize of Literature) in 1941. During this same time, in collaboration with Borges and Silvina Ocampo, he published two anthologies: ''Antología de la literatura fantástica'' (1940) y ''Antología poética argentina'' (1941).
[[File:La invención de Morel.JPG|thumb|left|La invención de Morel, Cover first edition, 1940]]
In 1940, Bioy Casares married [[Silvina Ocampo]], Victoria's sister, who was a painter as well as a writer. In 1954, one of Bioy Casares' mistresses gave birth in the United States to his daughter, Marta, who was subsequently adopted by his wife Silvina. Marta was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo's death, leaving Adolfo with two children. The estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires court to yet another love child of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fabián Bioy. Fabián Bioy died, aged 40, in [[Paris, France]], on 11 February 2006.
Bioy won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French [[Legion of Honour]] (1981), the Diamond [[Konex Award]] of Literature (1994) the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the [[Miguel de Cervantes Prize]] (awarded to him in 1991 in [[Alcalá de Henares]]). Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in [[La Recoleta Cemetery]], Buenos Aires.
==Works==
The best-known novel by Bioy Casares is ''La invención de Morel'' (''[[The Invention of Morel]]''). It is the story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease. Struggling to understand why everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings, made with a special machine, invented by Morel, which is able to record not only three-dimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all indistinguishable from reality. The story mixes [[Literary realism|realism]], [[fantasy]], science fiction and [[fear|terror]]. Borges wrote an introduction in which he called it a work of "reasoned imagination" and linked it to [[H. G. Wells]]' ''oeuvre''. Both Borges and [[Octavio Paz]] described the novel as "perfect". The story is held to be the inspiration for Alan Resnais's ''[[Last Year at Marienbad]]''<ref>Thomas Beltzer, ''Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120121024525/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2000/10/marienbad/ ].</ref> and an influence on the TV series ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]''.
* ''La nueva tormenta o la vida de Juan Ruteno'', 167 pp. (1935; "The New Storm or The Life of Juan Ruteno")
* ''[[La invención de Morel]]'', 126 pp. (1940; translated into English as ''[[The Invention of Morel]]'', 1964, {{ISBN|1-59017-057-1}})
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* ''Un campeón desparejo'', 110 pp. (1993; "An Uneven Champion")
* ''17 disparos contra el porvenir'', 173 pp. (1933; "17 Shots Against the Future")
* ''Caos'', 283 pp. (1934, "Chaos")
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* ''Selected Stories'', 176 pp. (1994, {{ISBN|0-8112-1275-0}})
[[File:Bioy Casares, Ocampo y Borges.jpg|thumb|300px|Bioy Casares with [[Victoria Ocampo]] and [[Jorge Luis Borges]], en Mar del Plata, imagen del fotógrafo Enrico Miagro]]
* ''La otra aventura'', 153 pp. (1968, "The Other Adventure")
* ''Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos'', 57 pp. (1970, "Memoir on the Pampas and the Gauchos")
* ''Prólogo'', 127 pp. (1929; "Prologue")
* ''La estatua casera'', 51 pp. (1936; "The Household Statue")
* ''Guirnalda con amores'', 200 pp. (1959; "Garland with Loves")
* ''Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito'', 161 pp. (1971; "Brief Dictionary of Affected Argentineans")
* ''En viaje (1967)'', 260 pp. (1996; "Travelling in 1967"; letters to Silvina Ocampo). Edited by Daniel Martino.
*''Descanso de caminantes. Diarios íntimos'', 507 pp. (2001; "Rest for Travellers and Intimate Diaries"; a selection from his Journals). Edited by Daniel Martino.
* ''La leche cuajada de La Martona'' (1935; La Martona's curdled milk - Advertising brochure)
* ''Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi'' (1942; translated into English as ''Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi'', 1981, {{ISBN|0-525-48035-8}})
* ''Dos fantasías memorables'' (1946; "Two Memorable Fantasies")
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''Dos fantasías memorables'' and ''Un modelo para la muerte'' were originally published in private printings of only 300 copies. The first commercial printings were published in 1970.
* ''Los que aman, odian'' (''Those Who Love, Hate'', 1946)
* ''Borges'' (2006).
* ''[[Los orilleros]]'' (1955, ''The Hoodlums'')▼
'''Screenplays written in collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges'''
* ''El paraíso de los creyentes'' (1955, ''The Paradise of the Believers'')
* ''[[Invasión]]'' (1969, ''Invasion'')
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060303025902/http://www.literatura.org/Bioy/8mar99.html Caricature and obituary] at literatura.org (in Spanish)
* [https://archive.today/20070315133822/http://www.logosfreebooks.org/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.w6_home_author.home?code_author=7117&lang=ES logosfreebooks.org biography of Bioy Casares]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040413093950/http://www.literatura.org/Bioy/Bioy_Casares.html Spanish-language page on Bioy Casares, including links to some passages from his works]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080311230024/http://www.argentina.ar/sw_contenido.php?id=429 Bioy renowned around the world.] Published online in ''www.Argentina.ar'' (in English)
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