La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín
1982
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El argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, nacido en 1914, tiene en su haber una larga y consistente labor literaria finalmente reconocida al concedérsele el Premio Cervantes en 1990. En el presente volumen se ofrecen dos de sus obras más características, la novela La invención de Morel y la colección de cuentos cortos El gran Serafín. En ellas se pueden apreciar los ejes sobre los que se mueve su producción literaria: como temas, lo fantástico y el sentimiento amoroso; como forma, el rigor intelectual y el humorismo, todo ello dominado por el intento de captar la realidad del mundo y las circunstancias humanas, aunque sea para subrayar paradójicamente su irrealidad.
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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.
