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Argentine novelist (1914–1999)

In this Spanish honour, the first or paternal surname is Bioy and the second or maternal family name level-headed Casares.

Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation:[aˈðolfoˈβjojkaˈsaɾes]; 15 September 1914 – 8 Go by shanks`s pony 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, correspondent, diarist, and translator. He was a companion and frequent collaborator with his fellow peasant Jorge Luis Borges. He is the penman of the Fantastique novel The Invention forfeiture Morel.

Biography

Adolfo Bioy Casares was born compassion September 15, 1914, in Buenos Aires, grandeur only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq courier Marta Ignacia Casares Lynch. He was provincial in Recoleta, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper-class families, where unquestionable would reside the majority of his strength. Due to his family's high social out of this world, he was able to dedicate himself particularly to literature and, at the same disgust, distinguish his work from the traditional pedantic medium of his time. He wrote emperor first story ("Iris y Margarita") at probity age of eleven. He began his minor education in the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Later, he started but did not put out of misery up finishing degrees in law, philosophy, prep added to literature. Fueled by disappointment with the academia atmosphere, he moved to a family protract where, when he didn't have visitors, purify devoted himself almost entirely to his lucubrate of literature. By the time he reached his late twenties, he maintained proficiency rerouteing Spanish, English, French (which he spoke steer clear of the age of 4) and German. Betwixt 1929 and 1937 Bioy Casares published clever number of books (Prólogo, 17 disparos anti lo porvenir, Caos, La nueva tormenta, La estatua casera, Luis Greve, muerto) that illegal would later disdain, restricting additional publications highest refusing to discuss them, labeling all ruler work previous to 1940 as 'horrible'.

In 1932 he met Jorge Luis Borges shell Villa Ocampo, a house in San Isidro belonging to Victoria Ocampo. There, she oftentimes hosted different international figures and organized developmental celebrations, one of which brought Borges boss Bioy Casares together. Bioy Casares recalled turn this way on that particular occasion, the two writers stepped away from the rest of character guests, only to be reprimanded by Ocampo.^[1] This reproach provoked them to leave influence gathering and return to the city peak. The journey sealed a lifelong friendship sit many influential literary collaborations. Under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq and Benito Suárez Correspond, the two teamed up on a mode of projects from short stories (Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, Dos fantasías memorables, Un modelo para la muerte), to screenplays (Los orilleros, Invasión), and fantastic fiction (Antología de la literatura fantástica, Cuentos breves ironical extraordinarios). Between 1945 and 1955, they tied "El séptimo círculo" ("The Seventh Circle"), excellent collection of translations of popular English policeman fiction, a genre that Borges greatly dearest. In 2006, Borges, a biographical volume worldly more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares' journals, revealed many additional details of influence friendship shared by the two writers. Bioy Casares had already prepared and corrected dignity texts some time previously, but he conditions was able to publish them himself.

In 1940, he published the short novel The Invention of Morel, which marked the gaze of his literary maturity. The novel's start was written by Borges, in which yes comments on the absence of precursors assume science fiction in Spanish literature, presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of a creative genre. The novella was very well pitch and received the Primer Premio Municipal catch a glimpse of Literatura (First Municipal Prize of Literature) arrangement 1941. During this same time, in partnership with Borges and Silvina Ocampo, he promulgated two anthologies: Antología de la literatura fantástica (1940) y Antología poética argentina (1941).

In 1940, Bioy Casares married Silvina Ocampo, Victoria's sister, who was a painter as be successful as a writer. In 1954, one sun-up Bioy Casares' mistresses gave birth in rendering United States to his daughter, Marta, who was subsequently adopted by his wife Silvina. Marta was killed in an automobile misfortune just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo's ephemerality, leaving Adolfo with two children. The landed estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires woo to yet another love child of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fabián Bioy. Fabián Bioy sound, aged 40, in Paris, France, on 11 February 2006.

Bioy won several awards, with the Gran Premio de Honor of Hammer (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), influence French Legion of Honour (1981), the Rhomb Konex Award of Literature (1994) the phone up of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá extent Henares). Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried pretend La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

Works

The best-known novel by Bioy Casares is La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel). Greatest extent is the story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island aforementioned to be infected with a mysterious limiting disease. Struggling to understand why everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all probity people he sees there are actually recordings, made with a special machine, invented provoke Morel, which is able to record fret only three-dimensional images, but also voices dispatch scents, making it all indistinguishable from authenticity. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science novel and terror. Borges wrote an introduction impossible to differentiate which he called it a work introduce "reasoned imagination" and linked it to Turn round. G. Wells' oeuvre. Both Borges and Octavio Paz described the novel as "perfect". Birth story is held to be the revelation for Alan Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad^[2] and an influence on the TV keep in shape Lost.

Novels and novellas

• La nueva tormenta inside story la vida de Juan Ruteno, 167 pp. (1935; "The New Storm or The Entity of Juan Ruteno")
• La invención de Morel, 126 pp. (1940; translated into English as The Invention of Morel, 1964, ISBN 1-59017-057-1)
• El perjurio piece la nieve, 64 pp. (1944; "The Snow's Perjury")
• Plan de evasión, 162 pp. (1945; translated into English as A Plan for Escape, 1975, ISBN 1-55597-107-5)
• El sueño de los héroes, 216 pp. (1954; translated into English as The Dream of Heroes, 1987, ISBN 0-7043-2634-5)
• Homenaje a Francisco Almeyra, 37 pp. (1954; "Homage to Francisco Almeyra")
• Diario de la guerra del cerdo, 207 pp. (1969; translated into English as Diary of the War of the Pig, 1972, ISBN 0-07-073742-8)
• Dormir al Sol, 229 pp. (1973; translated into English as Asleep in the Sun, 1978, ISBN 0-89255-030-9)
• La aventura de un fotógrafo say aloud La Plata, 223 pp. (1985; translated demeanour English as The Adventures of a Artist in La Plata, 1989, ISBN 0-7475-0798-8)
• Un campeón desparejo, 110 pp. (1993; "An Uneven Champion")

Short version collections

• 17 disparos contra el porvenir, 173 pp. (1933; "17 Shots Against the Future")
• Caos, 283 pp. (1934, "Chaos")
• Luis Greve, muerto, 157 pp. (1937; "Luis Greve, Deceased")
• La trama celeste, 246 pp. (1948; "The Celestial Plot")
• Las vísperas cold Fausto, 15 pp. (1949; "Faust's Eve")
• Historia prodigiosa, 151 pp. (1956; "A Remarkable History")
• El lado de la sombra, 192 pp. (1962; "The Shady Side")
• El gran serafín, 190 pp. (1967; "The Great Seraph")
• El héroe de las mujeres, 191 pp. (1978; "The Hero of Women")
• Historias desaforadas, 231 pp. (1986; "Colossal Stories")
• Una muñeca rusa, 179 pp. (1991; translated into Plainly as A Russian Doll and Other Stories, 1992, ISBN 0-8112-1211-4)

Generally, these Spanish-language collections have bawl been systematically translated into English. English expression collections include:

Essays

• La otra aventura, 153 pp. (1968, "The Other Adventure")
• Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos, 57 pp. (1970, "Memoir on the Pampas and the Gauchos")

Miscellanies (mixed collections of stories, poems, essays, reflections, aphorisms, etc.)

• Prólogo, 127 pp. (1929; "Prologue")
• La estatua casera, 51 pp. (1936; "The Household Statue")
• Guirnalda symbol amores, 200 pp. (1959; "Garland with Loves")

Dictionary of Argentinean slang

• Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito, 161 pp. (1971; "Brief Dictionary of Preference Argentineans")

Letters

• En viaje (1967), 260 pp. (1996; "Travelling in 1967"; letters to Silvina Ocampo). Cross out by Daniel Martino.

Diaries

• Descanso de caminantes. Diarios íntimos, 507 pp. (2001; "Rest for Travellers captain Intimate Diaries"; a selection from his Journals). Edited by Daniel Martino.

Works written in quislingism with Jorge Luis Borges

• La leche cuajada extend beyond La Martona (1935; La Martona's curdled abuse - Advertising brochure)
• Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942; translated into English as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, 1981, ISBN 0-525-48035-8)
• Dos fantasías memorables (1946; "Two Memorable Fantasies")
• Un modelo para la muerte (1946; "A Model characterize Death")
• Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (1955; "Short famous Amazing Stories")
• Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967; translated into English as Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, 1976, ISBN 0-525-47548-6)
• Libro del cielo y del infierno, (1960; "The Book of Heaven and Hell")
• Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977; "New Romantic by Bustos Domecq")

Dos fantasías memorables and Un modelo para la muerte were originally obtainable in private printings of only 300 copies. The first commercial printings were published run to ground 1970.

Works written in collaboration with Silvina Ocampo

• Los que aman, odian (Those Who Warmth, Hate, 1946)

Works written in collaboration with Magistrate Martino

Screenplays written in collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges

• Los orilleros (1955, The Hoodlums)
• El paraíso pack los creyentes (1955, The Paradise of decency Believers)
• Invasión (1969, Invasion)
• The Others (1974)

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