La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Both Borges and Octavio Paz described the novel as 'perfect.' The story is held to be the inspiration for Alan Resnais's Last Year in Marienbad and also an influence on the TV series Lost. Borges wrote a famous prologue in which he called it a work of 'reasoned imagination' and linked it to H. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science fiction and terror. Struggling to understand why everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings, made with a special machine, invented by Morel, which is able to record not only three-dimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all indistinguishable from reality. It is the story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease. The best-known novel by Bioy Casares is La invención de Morel ( The Invention of Morel). In 2006 Ediciones Destino published a book of Bioy's diary entries on Borges, numbering 1663 pages of anecdotes, witticisms and observations. The estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires court to yet another love child of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fabián Bioy, shortly before Fabián Bioy died, aged 40, in February 2006.īioy won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French Légion d'honneur (1981), the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares).Īdolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. In 1954 they adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death, leaving two children. Bustos Domecq.īioy and Borges were introduced in 1932 by Victoria Ocampo, whose sister, Silvina Ocampo (1903-1994), Bioy Casares was to marry in 1940. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of Jorge Luis Borges and wrote many stories with him under the pseudonym of H. He wrote his first story ('Iris y Margarita') at the age of eleven. Adolfo Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires, the grandson of a wealthy landowner and dairy processor, and the descendant of Patrick Lynch, a successful Irish emigrant.

La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares