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Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation: [a!!olfo !"joi ka !sa"es]; September 15, 1914 March 8, 1999) was an Argentine ction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and wrote what many consider one of the best pieces of fantastic ction, the novella The Invention of Morel.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Contents
1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Novels 2.2 Short Story Collections 2.3 Letters 2.4 Diaries 2.5 Works in collaboration 2.5.1 With Jorge Luis Borges 2.5.2 With Silvina Ocampo 2.6 Screenplays 2.6.1 With Jorge Luis Borges 3 References 4 External links 4.1 About The Invention of Morel
Bioy Casares in 1968 Born Died 15 September 1914 Buenos Aires, Argentina 8 March 1999 (aged 84) Buenos Aires, Argentina Aires, Argentina
Resting place La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Occupation Language Writer, poet, critic, librarian Spanish Argentine The Invention of Morel Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1991)
Biography
Adolfo Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires, the grandson of a wealthy landowner and dairy processor, and the descendant of Patrick Lynch, a successful Irish emigrant. He wrote his rst story ("Iris y Margarita") at the age of eleven.
Nationality Notable work(s) Notable award(s)
Bioy wrote many stories with Jorge Luis Borges under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq after they were introduced in 1932 by Victoria Ocampo, whose sister, Silvina Ocampo (19031994), Bioy Casares was to marry in 1940. In 1954 she also adopted Bioys daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954 94), who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampos death, leaving 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, Fabin Bioy, shortly before Fabin Bioy died, aged 40, in February 2006.
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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 Alcal de Henares). Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. In 2006 Ediciones Destino published a book of Bioy's diary entries on Borges, numbering 1663 pages of anecdotes, witticisms and observations.
Works
The best-known novel by Bioy Casares is La invencin 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 threedimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all indistinguishable from reality. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science ction and terror. Borges wrote a famous prologue 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[1] and also an inuence on the TV series Lost.
Novels
La invencin de Morel (1940, translated into English as The Invention of Morel, or "Morel's Invention" ISBN 1-59017-057-1) Plan de evasin (1945, translated into English as A Plan for Escape, ISBN 1-55597-107-5) El sueo de los hroes (1954, translated into English as Dream of Heroes, ISBN 0-7043-2634-5) Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969, translated into English as Diary of the War of the Pig, ISBN 007-073742-8) Dormir al Sol (1973, translated into English 1978 as Asleep in the Sun, ISBN 0-89255-030-9) La aventura de un fotgrafo en La Plata (1985, translated into English as The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, ISBN 0-7475-0798-8) Un campen desparejo (An Uneven Champion, 1993)
Short Story Collections

Prlogo (Prologue, 1929) 17 disparos contra el porvenir (17 Shots Against the Future, 1933) La estatua casera (The Household Statue, 1936) La trama celeste (The Celestial Plot, 1948) Luis Greve, muerto (Luis Greve, Deceased, 1937) Las vsperas de Fausto (Faust's Eve, 1949) Historia prodigiosa (A Remarkable History, 1956) Guirnalda con amores (Guirnalda with Loves1959) El lado de la sombra (The Shady Side, 1962) El gran serafn (The Great Seraph, 1967) El hroe de las mujeres (The Hero of Women, 1978) Historias desaforadas (Colossal Stories, 1986) Generally, these Spanish-language collections have not been systematically translated into English. English
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language collections include: The Russian Doll and Other Stories (ISBN 0-8112-1211-4) Selected Stories (ISBN 0-8112-1275-0)
Letters
En viaje (Travelling, 1996), letters to Silvina
Diaries
Descanso de caminantes. Diarios ntimos ('Rest for Travellers', 2001. 'Intimate Diaries'. D. Martino, Ed.) A selection from his Journals.
Works in collaboration
With Jorge Luis Borges Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942, translated into English as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, ISBN 0-525-48035-8) Dos fantasas memorables (Two Memorable Fantasies, 1946) Un modelo para la muerte (A Model for Death, 1946) Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (Short and Amazing Stories, 1955) Crnicas de Bustos Domecq (1967, translated into English as Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, ISBN 0525-47548-6) Libro del cielo y del inerno, (The Book of Heaven and Hell, 1960) Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (New Stories by Bustos Domecq, 1977) Dos fantasas memorables and Un modelo para la muerte were originally published in private printings of only 300 copies. The rst commercial printings were published in 1970. With Silvina Ocampo Los que aman, odian (Those Who Love, Hate, 1946)
Screenplays
With Jorge Luis Borges Los orilleros (1955, The Hoodlums) El paraso de los creyentes (1955, The Paradise of the Believers) Invasin (1969, Invasion) The Others (1974)
References
1. ^ Its possible inuence on Last Year at Marienbad (http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html), ed. Rafe Blaufarb (New York: Bedford/St.
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Martin's, 2008), 101-102.
External links
Caricature and obituary (http://www.literatura.org/Bioy/8mar99.html) at literatura.org (in Spanish) logosfreebooks.org biography of Bioy Casares (http://www.logosfreebooks.org/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.w6_home_author.home? code_author=7117&lang=ES) (in Spanish) Spanish-language page on Bioy Casares, including links to some passages from his works (http://www.literatura.org/Bioy/Bioy_Casares.html) Bioy renowned around the world. (http://www.argentina.ar/sw_contenido.php? id=429&idioma_sel=en) Published online in www.Argentina.ar (in English)
About The Invention of Morel

Borges on Morel (http://www.literatura.org/Bioy/Morelprologo.html) The opening to The Invention of Morel in English (http://anagrammatically.com/2011/09/18/theinvention-of-morel/) Analysis of Ruth Simms' translation of The Invention of Morel (http://anagrammatically.com/2011/09/18/the-invention-of-morel-redacted/) Review of 'The Invention of Morel' (http://www.nthposition.com/theinvention.php) by Seamus Sweeney on nthposition.com Prologue to The Invention of Morel (http://www.logosfreebooks.org/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.w6_start.doc?code=6728&lang=ES) (in Spanish) Review of 'The Invention of Morel' (http://www.waggish.org/2003/05/the_invention_of_morel_adolfo_bioy_casares.html) on waggish. (Spanish) Adolfo Vsquez Rocca, La Invencin de Morel; Defensa para sobrevivientes (http://www.espacioluke.com/2006/Septiembre2006/vasquez.html) Luke n 77, September 2006 ISSN 1578-8644. (Spanish) Adolfo Vsquez Rocca, De la invencin de Morel a los simulacros de Baudrillard; La nueva ecologa de los mass media (http://www.tendencias21.net/La-nueva-ecologia-de-los-massmedia_a1134.html), Tendencias 21, 17 September 2006. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adolfo_Bioy_Casares&oldid=594653999" Categories: Premio Cervantes winners 1914 births 1999 deaths People from Buenos Aires Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires Argentine people of Irish descent Argentine science ction writers Magic realism writers Argentine writers Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery This page was last modied on 9 February 2014 at 11:22. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.
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Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Adolfo Bioy Casares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Short Story Collections

Adolfo Bioy Casares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adolfo Bioy Casares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martin's, 2008), 101-102.

About The Invention of Morel

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