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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.

In seaside Bosque del Mar, Argentina, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by a double misfortune: the mysterious death of one of their party and an investigation headed by pedant, physician, writer and insufferable busybody Dr Humberto Huberman.The translator, Mary, is found dead on the first night of Huberman's stay. Huberman quickly appoints himself leader of an inquiry that will see blame apportioned in turn to each and every guest, culminating in a wild, wind-blown reconnaissance mission nearby shipwreck, the Joseph K.

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.