Adolfo Bioy Casares

Luigi Marfe (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Ed. by Ceire Broderick, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 15 Sep 1914
Died 8 Mar 1999
Activity 1940-1999

Places

Born in Argentina
Active in Argentina

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Adolfo Bioy Casares “was really and secretly the master”, once wrote Jorge Luis Borges (1970: 40), who was a close friend of his and co-authored many books with him. Indeed, over the course of 70 years, Bioy Casares wrote a great number of novels, short stories, literary essays, and screenplays, making him one the greatest contemporary Argentinian writers. In particular, his masterpiece, La invención de Morel (1940) [The Invention of Morel], was one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.

Bioy Casares wrote tales mostly in the fields of science fiction, dystopia, mysteries and the detective genre. His work explored themes such as the dynamics of desire and cruelty, the relationship between …

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Citation: Marfe, Luigi. "Adolfo Bioy Casares". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 June 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12766, accessed 29 March 2023.]

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