
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Writing
Biography
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He is is the author of the fantastic fiction novel "La invención de Morel/The Invention of Morel".
Known For

Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
Those Who Love, Hate

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
Invasion

Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.
Asleep in the Sun

In an anguished triangle of silences and unspoken words, a man secretly loves a woman who loves another man.
In Memoriam

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.
The Others

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El sueño de los héroes

About Dr. Morel who invents a machine to duplicate the woman he loved, Faustina, in virtual reality. A tale dealing with the impossibility of ever knowing for certain which parts of ourselves and our relationship with others exist only in our imagination.
The Invention of Dr. Morel

A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.
Morel's Invention

The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.
Los orilleros

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.
Diary of a Pig War

A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart.
La invención de Morel

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…
The Invention of Morel

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
The Crime of Oribe

A group of peoples decide to go to relax to a hotel near the sea. He hotel's owner is an enigmatic woman who lives with her distant daughter, a young pianist and a naive waitress. When the media inform about the end of the world only reaction the waitress and one of the guests.
El gran Serafín

In an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.
La guerra del cerdo

A man who witnesses the casual disappearances of coworkers from a factory starts making investigations.