The Dream of Heroes

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Dutton, 1988 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 212 pages
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Despite his secret protector's warnings, Emilio Gauna re-creates the situation that, three years before, led to a horrible encounter with a masked woman during Carnival 1927--an encounter he dimly remembers and never understood

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In this novel Casares returns to the topics of time and memory that made The Invention of Morel such a fascinating experience. It’s 1927 and Emilio Gauna, a lowlife mechanic from Buenos Aires wins a ... Read full review

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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (1988)

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.

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TitleThe Dream of Heroes
AuthorAdolfo Bioy Casares
PublisherDutton, 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 2, 2006
ISBN0525246878, 9780525246879
Length212 pages
  
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