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Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–99) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy’s extensive oeuvre, which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century’s cultural, social, and political transformations, both in Argentina and further afield. Topics covered include Bioy’s meditations on isolation and logic and his enduring fascination with the impact of visual technologies on all artistic representation.
256 pages | 15 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2012
Iberian and Latin American Studies
Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages

Reviews
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Note on translations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Note on translations
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Rethinking Adolfo Bioy Casares
Karl Posso
1. Adolfo Bioy Casares: a biographical sketch
John King
2. Borges’s appendix: reflections on Bioy’s diary
Daniel Balderston
3. Bioy and Borges: from the third man to the world of Bustos Domecq
Michel Lafon
4. Every man is an island: Bioy’s fiction
Stephen Henighan
5. 1969: youth and rebellion in Diario de la Guerra del cerdo and Invasión
Jordana Blejmar
6. The fantastic in Bioy’s short stories
Jesús Rodero
7. Bioy, Ocampo and the photographic image
Fiona J. Mackintosh
8. To love in the infinitive: time, image and the powers of the false in La invención de Morel
Karl Posso
Index
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