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| Title | : | The Invention of Morel |
| Author | : | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | NYRB Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 103 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2003 by New York Review Books (first published 1940) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Classics |
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Paperback | Pages: 103 pages Rating: 4.06 | 15453 Users | 1316 Reviews
Description Toward Books The Invention of Morel
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to find such admirers as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, this classic of modern Latin-American literature also changed the history of film.
Details Books Supposing The Invention of Morel
| Original Title: | La invención de Morel |
| ISBN: | 1590170571 (ISBN13: 9781590170571) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dora, Irene, El fugitivo, Faustine, Morel, Dalmacio Ombrellieri, La mujer vieja, Haynes, Stoever |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Municipal de Literatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires |
Rating Out Of Books The Invention of Morel
Ratings: 4.06 From 15453 Users | 1316 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books The Invention of Morel
A surrealistic story with perfect execution. I am captivated by the setting and protagonist's inner conflicts. Me! A shallow reader who enjoy cheap thrilling of pulp fictions enjoyed a Latin American literature work! That's how good Casares's writing skill is. Mystery has big part on the story, so even it is a well known literature, I don't want to say much about the plot. But I can say the atmosphere alone is a perfect example of surrealism of early 20th century. I can't help myself imaginingLacking in the satirical surrealism found in his later (and some say lesser) NYRB book Asleep in the Sun, unfortunately this one failed to sustain my attention despite forty pages of anticipatory eagerness. The narrator, nameless, mooches around an island spying on a gypsy woman and is evicted from her presence by bearded Frenchmen. Naturally, she is beautiful, naturally he falls in love with her, then something happens to do with photographs and people dying and I didnt understand most of it,
When I first started this novella, I was highly bemused by everything. The nameless narrator from Venezuela, who is living on an island he believes is called Villings and who decides to write a diary of what is happening there. He is unsure how long he has to live. He is a fugitive on the run from justice after being sentenced to life imprisonment. We are never to find out what this crime is, and then an Italian rug merchant in Calcutta tells him about an island: There is only one place for a
4.5/5In order for this novel to work the groundwork had to be situated early and deftly, the authors voice sculpted within the fictions flow. At first the slowness, repetitiveness earned the book a 2 star rating and my reading ability a one lone lonely star. Okay, maybe a two but the last in pieces and I had to glue it together. Then I waited for it to dry. Impatient waiting I decided it best to give the novella up. There is a condition where the ribs become inflamed as does the lower back.
The Invention of Morel was adjudged a perfect work by Jorge Luis Borges, the authors mentor/friend/frequent collaborator. Anybody familiar with the essays and short fiction of Borges can appreciate what it means for one of the great masters of world literature to make such a pronouncement. Perhaps Borges appraisal reflects, in part, how Adolfo Bioy Casares shares much of his own aesthetic and literary sensibilities since, after all, they collaborated on twelve books.More specifically, here are
Coming Clean About LOSTSeveral years ago I was induced by my grandchildren to watch seven seasons worth of the television series LOST during summer holidays. Filmed in Hawaii from 2004 to 2010, the series recounted the increasingly strange existence of the survivors of a trans-Pacific flight on an apparently uncharted, and possibly uncharitable, island. Often tedious, always unexpected, the tale, I decided, was either an invention beyond my abilities to appreciate, or it was utter nonsense, with
The Invention of Morel was adjudged a perfect work by Jorge Luis Borges, the authors mentor/friend/frequent collaborator. Anybody familiar with the essays and short fiction of Borges can appreciate what it means for one of the great masters of world literature to make such a pronouncement. Perhaps Borges appraisal reflects, in part, how Adolfo Bioy Casares shares much of his own aesthetic and literary sensibilities since, after all, they collaborated on twelve books.More specifically, here are
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