El lado de la sombra

By Adolfo Bioy Casares

1962

First Published

3.54

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224

Number of Pages

6H48M

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Los cuentos El lado de la sombra y Los afanes retoman el tema de La invención de Morel desde visiones opuestas. El primero responde a preguntas tan enigmáticas como : ¿hay una persona original y luego una sucesión de réplicas que se confunden? O ¿puede esa persona original, una vez muerta, reaparecer en algún recodo del mundo? En el segundo, la invención de Eladio Heller reemplaza la invención de Morel : ya no se trata de una réplica perfecta del original, a quien sustituye, sino de una eternidad mucho más precaria : un alma encerrada en un bastidor. Los demás cuentos, ordenados por el autor, adquieren también con el tiempo una nueva resonancia. This brilliant collection of short stories reveals the satirical side of Argentinian writer Bioy Casares, one of the masters of contemporary Spanish language literature and Cervantes Prize winner in 1990. The author's selection includes stories that have acquired new meaning with the passage of time.

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Author

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Author · 26 books

Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. He began to write in the early Thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an Anthology of Fantastic Literature and a series of satirical sketches written under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq.