Adolfo Bioy Casares
Borges, Fiction and Art
Editor(s) Karl Posso
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Modern Languages
Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
- November 2012 · 256 pages
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708325384
- · eBook - epub - 9781783165490
About The Book
Endorsements
"Lifelong friend and literary partner of Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares stands undoubtedly among the finest Argentine writers of the Twentieth Century. Fundamental to the development of fantastic genre and science fiction in the Rio de la Plata, his prose has been somehow neglected until recently by audiences outside Latin America. In 'Adolfo Bioy Casares. Borges, Fiction and Art', a group of leading scholars on Latin American Literature examines the full range of Bioy Casares' work through illuminating essays, offering a detailed historical, political and cultural contextualization of one of the finest author's from Argentina." Professor Florencia Garramuno, University of San Andres
Contents
Introduction Rethinking Adolfo Bioy Casares Karl Posso Chapter 1 Adolfo Bioy Casares: A Biographical Sketch John King Chapter 2 Borges's Appendix: Reflections on Bioy's Diary Daniel Balderston Chapter 3 Bioy and Borges: From the Third Man to the World of Bustos Domecq Michel Lafon Chapter 4 Every Man is an Island: Bioy's Fiction Stephen Henighan Chapter 5 1969: Youth and Rebellion in Diario de la guerra del cerdo and Invasion Jordana Blejmar Chapter 6 The Fantastic in Bioy's Short Stories Jesus Rodero Chapter 7 Bioy, Ocampo and the Photographic Image Fiona J. Mackintosh Chapter 8 To Love in the Infinitive: Time, Image and the Powers of the False in La invencion de Morel Karl Posso