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The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata
1982
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Magistralmente ejecutada en ese tono de duermevela que los ingleses llaman "daydream", La aventura de un fotografo en La Plata es la cronica de una conspiracion invisible. Nicolasito Almanza, un sencillo muchacho de provincia, llega a La Plata con el encargo de fotografiar las "maravillas arquitectonicas" del lugar. En la estacion tropieza con la familia Lombardo, que descubre en el una inquietante semejanza con un hijo desaparecido en circunstancicas extrañas. Desde ese momento su vida queda limitada por dos bandos: el del inescrupuloso Lombardo y sus hijas, siempre avidos de retener al muchacho, y el de quienes intentan apartarlo de dicha familia con ambiguas intenciones, entre ellos Mascardi, un policia que calza un revolver con la numeracion borrada "por si tengo que bajar a uno". Nicolasito sigue adelante sin pensar mal de nadie, pero una sucesion de personajes fantasmales se interpondran una y otra vez en su camino, extraviandolo por una ciudad que parece diluirse en la persistente neblina que la envuelve.

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Adolfo Bioy Casares
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.
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