La invención y la trama: una antología

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Marcelo Pichón Rivière

Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988 - Literary Criticism - 608 pages

Adolfo Bioy es, quiza, el mas alto exponente de la ficcion latinoamericana contemporanea; la presente antologia ratifica esta aseveracion. Incluye dos famosas obras de Bioy: La invencion de Morel y El sueno de los heroes, asi como una muestra representativa de sus cuentos, aforismos y ensayos.

Contents

• Un enemigo de los caballos: 534
• Libro octavo: 543
• Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos 555: 555

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 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: La invención y la trama: una antología; Colección Tierra firme; Tierra Firme; Tierra firme : historia de las ideas en América
• Authors: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Marcelo Pichón Rivière
• Editor: Marcelo Pichón Rivière
• Compiled by: Marcelo Pichón Rivière
• Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988
• Original from: University of Texas
• Digitized: Oct 28, 2009
• ISBN: 9681627482, 9789681627485
• Length: 608 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / General