Adolfo Bioy Casares Books

The book offers a unique glimpse into the friendship between Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, highlighting their literary discussions that span various genres, from police procedurals to gothic novels. It showcases their playful critiques of canonical authors like Shakespeare and Joyce, while celebrating a vibrant and joyful approach to life in literature. Through their exchanges, readers gain insight into the passions and philosophies that shaped two of Latin America's literary giants.

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.

Numa noite de 1937, ao conversar sobre ficções fantásticas, três amigos – Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares e Silvina Ocampo – resolveram criar uma antologia com seus autores preferidos. Três anos depois, foi lançada a Antologia da literatura fantástica, consolidada em sua edição definitiva 25 anos depois, obtendo enorme sucesso não só de estima como de público. Do filósofo Martin Buber ao explorador Richard Burton, passando pela tradição dos contos orientais, além de Cortázar, Kafka, Cocteau, Joyce, Wells e Rabelais, são 75 histórias – não só contos, como fragmentos de romance e peças de teatro -- que nos apresentam uma literatura marcada pelo imaginário e por um modo diferente de representar a realidade.

Ein Mann sucht Zuflucht auf einer geheimnisvollen Insel, wo er auf verlassene Orte und unerklärliche Maschinen stößt. Plötzlich tauchen Menschen auf, darunter die schöne Faustine, die ihn ignoriert. Durch das Belauchen von Morel entdeckt er das unheimliche Geheimnis der Insel und fasst einen folgenschweren Entschluss. Neuübersetzung von Gisbert Haefs.