The Argentine Adolfo Bioy Casares, popularly known as an author of "fantastic literature," has inspired generations of Latin-American readers and writers with his elegant humor and prophetic imaginati...
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Critical Essay by D. P. Gallagher
Bioy Casares's novels and short stories are comic master-pieces whose fundamental joke is the gap that separates what his characters know from what is going on...
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Critical Essay by Emir Rodriguez Monegal
The story told by Bordenave [the protagonist of Dormir al sol (Sleeping in the Sun)] is very strange but it takes place in the context of everyday trivia. He i...
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Critical Essay by Deborah Weinberger
[The] world of Bioy Casares is endless: a world of unlimited possibilities for new worlds which then will form part of it. Everything Bioy Casares writes offers a ...
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Critical Essay by Robert M. Adams
Both Morel and Escape center on that favorite figure of our cultural fantasies, the mad scientist. To make him omnipotent, the scientist must be isolated, and since H...
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Critical Essay by F. Jeanneret
The esthetic roots of a work [like Asleep In the Sun]—self-contained, circular, non-referential, suicidal—are many, but the keystone may be found in that p...
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An American theater critic, Frankel has worked for the Saturday Evening Post, National Observer, and the New York Times. He is also a screenwriter and has collaborated on books with such noted enterta...
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Cheuse is an American novelist, short story writer, and critic. In the following mixed review, he maintains that Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi holds little interest for a general audience and is ...
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Born in Kenya, Spurling is playwright and critic. In the following excerpt, he provides a negative assessment of Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi.
Borges first met Adolfo Bioy-Casares in 1930, when ...
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A prolific translator of Latin American literature, Levine has translated works by such authors as Manuel Puig, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Severo Sarduy, and Carlos Fuentes. She is the...
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In the following review, Muther highlights the inherent social commentary of Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi and discusses the nature of Bioy Cassares's professional relationship with Jorge ...
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In the following review, Rankin provides a positive assessment of Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, describing the collection as "conservative satire."
In "The Sartorial Revolution (I)...
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In the following essay, Tamargo contends that A Plan for Escape evades interpretation by withholding the evidence necessary for a single, definitive reading.
Developing in a tradition in which the ver...
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Suzanne Jill Levine on the Stylistic Aspects of Bioy Casares's Work:
Bioy's brief sentences reflect his tendency toward shorter, concise narrative forms (stories, novellas, and short no...
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Faris is an American educator, critic, and author. In the following review of Historias desaforadas, Faris comments on the collection's "melancholy tone of nostalgia and resignation.�...
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In the following excerpt, Cunningham lauds the mix of myth and local color in The Dream of Heroes.
[A] brand of haunted American maleness preoccupies Adolfo Bioy Casares's The Dream of Heroes. ...
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An American educator, Tilles is the author of two textbooks, Voces y vistas: Active Spanish for Beginners (1970) and Puntos de vista: Voces de España e Hispano-America (1971). In the following ...
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An American author and critic, Morris has published novels, short stories, and travel pieces. In the following mixed review, she asserts that the theme of fate in The Dream of Heroes is more befitting...
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An American novelist who received many literary awards for his first novel, Imagining Argentina (1987), Thornton is also the author of Unbodied Hope: Narcissism and the Modern Novel (1984). In the fol...
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Harris is a Canadian journalist and author whose bestseller, Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall (1986), is the true account of a seventeen-year-old Micmac Indian who was sentenced to life ...
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In the following excerpt, Stavans finds The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata disappointing.
The future will remember the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares as the close friend and collaborat...
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Hegi is a German-born American educator, novelist, and critic. In the following review of A Plan for Escape, she comments on Bioy Casares's focus on communication and reality.
Adolfo Bioy-Casar...
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An American critic, Balderston is the author of Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (1993) and The Latin American Short Story: An Annotated Guide to Anthol...
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An American educator, critic, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, and short story writer, Mujica is a specialist in the field of Hispanic studies. In the review below, she offers a favorable assessme...
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Below, Hernández offers a positive assessment of the stories collected in El lado de la sombra.
Originally published in 1962, El lado de la sombra heralded Adolfo Bioy Casares's partial ...
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In the following review of A Russian Doll, and Other Stories, Echevarría criticizes the collection's lack of "vital conflict" and thematic variation, but praises Bioy Casar...
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In the following, Arrington offers a positive assessment of Memorias.
In his collection of reminiscences, Memorias, Adolfo Bioy Casares (b. 1914 in Buenos Aires) openly discusses his early orientation...
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In the following review, Levin favorably comments on Diary of the War of the Pig.
[In Diary of the War of the Pig a senior citizen] of Buenos Aires, Isidro Vidal, realizes one day that his old friends...
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Prescott is an American critic, educator, and prominent journalist. His Soundings: Encounters with Contemporary Books (1972) examines several books published in the mid-1960s through early 1970s. In t...
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In the following excerpt, Lewis comments favorably on Asleep in the Sun.
Adolfo Bioy Casares first came to the attention of the English-reading public as a collaborator with Jorge Luis Borges in such ...
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An American educator and critic, Christ is the author of The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion (1969) and has contributed to the critical collections The Cardinal Points of Borges (1971) and ...
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In the essay below, Cossio claims that Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi parodies literary convention and the reading and writing processes on several levels. Cossio also examines how this work is in...
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Sturrock is the author of Paper Tigers: The Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (1977). In the following review, he describes Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi as an entertaining example of detective...
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An Argentine short story writer, poet, and essayist, Borges was one of the leading figures in modern literature. His writing is often used by critics to illustrate the contemporary view of literature ...
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Meehan is an American translator, critic, and professor of Spanish language and Spanish-American literature, specializing in Argentine fiction.
Adolfo Bioy Casares is probably best known as the author...
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Very little is known about the extensive literary production of Bioy Casares prior to the resounding success of his now almost classical fantastic novel, La invención de Morel (1940), because the...
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An extraordinary stylist, Updike is one of America's most distinguished men of letters. Considered a perceptive observer of the human condition, he is best known for such novels as Rabbit Run (...
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Faris is an American educator, critic, and author. In the following review of Historias desaforadas, Faris comments on the collection 's "melancholy tone of nostalgia and resignation. &#...
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"The Sartorial Revolution
If, as has been duly pointed out, the epithet functional is wholly out of fashion in the small world of architects, in sartorial circles it has attained prestigious an...
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In the following essay, Snook examines the dynamics of the relationship between genders as well as narrative voices in "Moscas y arañas. "
During an [unpublished 1987] interview, Bi...
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In the following essay, Snook examines the psychological boundaries that define the self as presented in The Invention of Morel.
In many of Bioy Casares' major novels and short stories, the aut...
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An American critic, Balderston is the author of Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (1993) and The Latin American Short Story: An Annotated Guide to Anthol...
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Below, Hernández offers a positive assessment of the stories collected in El lado de la sombra.
Originally published in 1962, El lado de la sombra heralded Adolfo Bioy Casares's partial re...
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In the following review of A Russian Doll, and Other Stories, Echevarría criticizes the collection's lack of "vital conflict" and thematic variation but praises Bioy Casares&...
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In the following essay, Mac Adam focuses on the use of language and narrative to demonstrate that two stories written jointly by Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, "El hijo de su amigo"...
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In the following excerpt, Gallagher contends that "Bioy Casares's novels and short stories are comic masterpieces whose fundamental joke is the gap that separates what his characters kno...
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Adams is an American educator and author. In the essay below, he analyzes Bioy Casares's deliberate use of ambiguity and unresolved mystery in A Plan for Escape.
Adolfo Bioy Casares has been kn...
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Rosenstein is a free-lance writer and critic. In the following review of A Plan for Escape, he praises the story's "inventiveness and audacity. "
Adolfo Bioy-Casares, whose work i...
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Snook is an American educator, author, and critic. In the following essay, she discusses aesthetic theory in The Invention of Morel.
Many of the first person narrators of Bioy Casares' fantasti...
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In the essay below, Cossio claims that Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi parodies literary convention through inversions on several levels including structure and liguistics.
In 1942, H. Bustos Domec...
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An English literary figure, Pritchett is considered a modern master of the short story and a preeminent literary critic. He writes in the conversational tone of the familiar essay, approaching literat...
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In the following review, Rankin provides a positive assessment of Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, describing the collection as "conservative satire. "
In "The Sartorial Revolution (I...
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
