Adolfo Bioy Casares

“Nine erudite, intelligent essayists rethink inventive writer Adolfo Bioy Casares’s lifelong literary friendship with Jorge Luis Borges, and proffer an excellent contextualization. . . . . The result is an immensely readable and academically sound exegesis of Bioy’s extensive oeuvre, with many interesting reflections about modern Argentine literature and culture. Highly recommended.”

“Adolfo Bioy Casares is now recognized as a major figure in his own right, even though he lived in the shadow of his friend Jorge Luis Borges for most of his life. These essays by leading scholars reassess Bioy’s considerable oeuvre and are sure to stimulate new insights and perspectives on his stories, novels, essays, and film scripts. The book acknowledges the importance of his collaboration with Borges, and includes a fascinating critique of the controversial Diario  of their relationship. Karl Posso’s collection is a must for scholars of Argentine culture and for anyone who wants to understand the influence of Bioy’s multifaceted legacy on the development of Latin American literature in the twentieth century.”

“Lifelong friend and literary partner of Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares stands undoubtedly among the finest Argentine writers of the twentieth century. Fundamental to the development of the fantastic genre and science fiction in the Rio de la Plata region, his prose has been neglected until recently by audiences outside Latin America. In Adolfo Bioy Casares: Borges, Fiction and Art, a group of leading scholars on Latin American literature examines the full range of Bioy’s work through illuminating essays, offering a detailed historical, political and cultural contextualization of one of Argentina’s most important writers.”