SOURCE: A review of The Invention of Morel, and Other Stories (from "La trama celeste"), in Hispania, Vol. XLVIII, No. 4, December, 1965, p. 944.

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 excerpt, he discusses The Invention of Morel, and Other Stories as a work evincing imagination, but laments the structural and thematic similarities of the tales in the collection.

[The Invention of Morel and Other Stories (from "La trama celeste")] is a very welcome addition to the growing list of Spanish American literature in translation, and particularly so because it will serve as proof that not all Spanish American fiction is sociological in nature. The Argentine Bioy Casares, like his famous mentor Jorge Luis Borges, seeks the material for his works in the unexplored corners of the...