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Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914−1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy’s extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century’s cultural, social and political transformations, both in Argentina and farther afield. Topics covered include Bioy’s meditations on isolation and logic, and his enduring fascination with the impact of photography on all artistic representation.

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Spanish language in the Americas

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783165490
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Series Editors
Professor David George (Swansea University)
Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)
Editorial Board
David Frier (University of Leeds)
Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool)
Gareth Walters (Swansea University)
Rob Stone (Swansea University)
David Gies (University of Virginia)
Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham)
Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Borges, Fiction and Art
EDITED BY KARL POSSO
The Contributors, 2012
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Adolfo BioyCasares and Jorge Luis Borges, 1942. By permission of Fundaci n San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Contents
Series Editors Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Note on translations
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Rethinking Adolfo Bioy Casares
Karl Posso
Chapter 1: Adolfo Bioy Casares: a biographical sketch
John King
Chapter 2: Borges s appendix: reflections on Bioy s diary
Daniel Balderston
Chapter 3: Bioy and Borges: from the third man to the world of Bustos Domecq
Michel Lafon
Chapter 4: Every man is an island: Bioy s fiction
Stephen Henighan
Chapter 5: 1969: youth and rebellion in Diario de la guerra del cerdo and Invasi n
Jordana Blejmar
Chapter 6: The fantastic in Bioy s short stories
Jes s Rodero
Chapter 7: Bioy, Ocampo and the photographic image
Fiona J. Mackintosh
Chapter 8: To love in the infinitive: time, image and the powers of the false in La invenci n de Morel
Karl Posso
Series Editors Foreword

Over recent decades the traditional languages and literatures model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and area studies approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds - categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.
In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.
Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Fiona J. Mackintosh with whom I began work on this project a few years ago in a congenial upper corner of the University of Edinburgh s rather ascetic David Hume Tower. Our discussions and her enthusiasm proved invaluable, as did her ideas and outlines for parts of a forerunner to the present Introduction. I am particularly grateful to Ernesto Montequin for his assistance in selecting photographs from the estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Jean-Pierre Mourey, Hugo Santiago, Miguel de Torre Borges, Compa a de Teatro Eva Halac and Fundaci n San Telmo also generously provided photographs and artwork and pledged their support for the volume. The ensemble of contributors owe thanks to more people than may be encompassed on this page.
Karl Posso
List of figures

The picture section is placed between pages 112 and 113.
Figure 1 Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, 1942 Fundaci n San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Figure 2 Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo s wedding, Pardo, 15 January 1940. Seated: Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares; standing: Jorge Luis Borges, Enrique Drago Mitre (Bioy s friend), Oscar Pardo (foreman of estancia Rinc n Viejo) Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Figure 3 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges, Mar del Plata, c .1934 Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Figure 4 Panel 87 by Jean-Pierre Mourey, from Jean-Pierre Mourey and Adolfo Bioy Casares, L Invention de Morel d Adolfo Bioy Casares (2007, p. 101) CASTERMAN S.A. Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Mourey
Figure 5 Panel 89 by Jean-Pierre Mourey, from Jean-Pierre Mourey and Adolfo Bioy Casares, L Invention de Morel d Adolfo Bioy Casares (2007, p. 103) CASTERMAN S.A. Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Mourey
Figure 6 Sawyer (Josh Holloway) with The Invention of Morel , in Lost , Eggtown , episode 76 (2008). Photograph by Mario Perez Mario Perez/Disney ABC Television Group/Getty Images
Figure 7 La invenci n de Morel puppets by Rub n Trifir , 1995 Compa a de Teatro Eva Halac, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Figure 8 Adolfo Bioy Casares on El Gaucho at estancia Rinc n Viejo, Pardo, Province of Buenos Aires, January 1921 Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Figure 9 Adolfo Bioy, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Ayax, Alta Gracia, C rdoba, 1932 Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Figure 10 Biorges (Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares) by Gis le Freund, c .1942 Photo Gis le Freund/IMEC/Fonds MCC
Figure 11 Don Porfirio (Juan Carlos Paz) in Invasi n (1969). Dir. Hugo Santiago. At 00:31:23 Courtesy of Hugo Santiago
Figure 12 Herrera (Lautaro Mur a) and the invaders in Invasi n (1969). Dir. Hugo Santiago. At 01:51:49 Courtesy of Hugo Santiago
Figure 13 Faustine by Norah Borges de Torre, 1940. Originally in Adolfo Bioy Casares, La invenci n de Morel (Buenos Aires: Losada, 1940) Courtesy of Miguel de Torre Borges
Figure 14 Silvina Ocampo. Photograph by Daniel Merle, c .1986 Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Figure 15 Butterflies on Bioy s windowsill. Photograph by Adolfo Bioy Casares, c .1980 Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Note on translations

Published translations have been referred to where possible; otherwise, translations are the authors own. The translated titles of works which are not available in English appear uncapitalized.
Notes on contributors

Daniel Balderston is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also directs the Borges Center. Recent publications include Innumerables relaciones: C mo leer con Borges (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 2010) and the edited books Juan Carlos Onetti: Novelas cortas (Centre de Recherches Latino-Am ricaines Archivos, 2009) and, with Arturo Matute Castro, Cartograf as queer: Sexualidades y activismo LGBT en Am rica Latina (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2011).
Jordana Blejmar has worked for the Ministry of Education and FLACSO in Argentina; she is currently a Gates Doctoral Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research on Argentinian culture of the 1970s focuses on generational transmission and dictatorship. In 2011 she co-curated Anacron as , a photographic exhibition at the Maison de l Argentine, Paris. She has published several articles on art and memory.
Stephen Henighan is Professor and Head of Hispanic Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is the author of ten books, including Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel ngel Asturias (Legenda, 1999) and A Report on the Afterlife of Culture (Biblioasis, 2008). Henighan has published articles on Latin American writers such as Alejo Carpentier, R mulo Gallegos, Antonio Sk rmeta, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ram rez, and he has translated novels from Portuguese and Romanian.
John King is Professor of Latin American Cultural History at the University of Warwick. He has published more than a dozen edited and single-authored books on Latin American culture, including Sur: A Study