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LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS PONDER INNOCENCE AND GUILT
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THE ADVENTURES OF A PHOTOGRAPHER IN LA PLATA
By Adolfo Bioy Casares
Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Dutton, 169 pp., $18.95
THE CHASE
By Alejo Carpentier
Translated by Alfred Mac Adam
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 122 pp., $16.95
Like Jorge Luis Borges, his late collaborator, the remarkable
Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares is easy to misread. His
novels combine overtones of the metaphysical with shar...
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LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS PONDER INNOCENCE AND GUILT
The Boston Globe
; THE ADVENTURES OF A PHOTOGRAPHER IN LA PLATA By Adolfo Bioy Casares Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine Dutton, 169 pp., $18.95 THE CHASE By Alejo Carpentier Translated by Alfred Mac Adam Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 122 pp., $16.95 Like Jorge Luis Borges, his late collaborator, the remarkable
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Bioy Casares: los suenos de un heroe literario
La Opinion
; La Opinion 03-10-1999 Bioy Casares: los sueos de un hroe literario Es imposible hablar de Adolfo Bioy Casares sin mencionar a Jorge Luis Borges. La suya fue una de las colaboraciones ms envidiables de la literatura latinoamericana, la amistad entraable entre dos hombres obsesionados por el arte de
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Obituary: Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Independent - London
; THE WRITER Adolfo Bioy Casares will perhaps be known best outside of Argentina as the friend and co-writer of Jorge Luis Borges, a friendship that began in 1935 and lasted a lifetime. But Bioy Casares was a stylist and for this literary ability and for his considerable output, he won the Cervantes
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ALLEGORY FROM ARGENTINA
The Boston Globe
; THE DREAM OF HEROES, by Adolfo Bioy Casares; translated by Diana Thorold. Dutton. 212 pp. $17.95. DIARY OF THE WAR OF THE PIG, by Adolfo Bioy Casares; translated by Gregory Woodruff and Donald A. Yates. Obelisk. 196 pp. $7.95 (paperback). Few Latin American novelists today are as extravagantly
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(book reviews)
Studies in Short Fiction
; Literary critics and Latin Americanists agree on classifying the Argentinean Bioy Casares as a fiction writer who, by dexterously combining the real and the fantastic, delves deep into the confused human mind. The present collection of short stories is his ninth. It is composed of six pieces
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Adolfo Bioy Casares. The Invention of Morel.(Book Review)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; Adolfo Bioy Casares. The Invention of Morel. Trans. Ruth L. C. Simms. Prologue Jorge Luis Borges. Intro. Suzanne Jill Levine. Illus. Norah Borges de Torre. New York Review Books, 2003. 103 pp. Paper: $12.95. (Reprint) Clearly, the two biggest names in Argentine letters in the past half-century have
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PLUS ENTERTAINMENT
Chicago Sun-Times
; SOUNDS OF `WAR': Elektra Nonesuch will release the official soundtrack recording to "The Civil War," the five-part documentary by Ken Burns which has become the most popular offering ever presented on public television. The series, which made its debut the week of Sept. 23, traces the personal and
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Reconciling film studies and geography: Adolfo Bioy Casares's La invencion de Morel.
Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ... emphases. The first is a quantitative approach grounded in that statically-envisioned physical world that may be set down in maps, and the second is a qualitative approach that has tended more toward the changing non-corporeal ideas that account for physical ...
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ELLIS' BOOK CANNED
The Boston Globe
; Book publisher Simon & Schuster said yesterday it will not release "American Psycho," a violent new novel by critically acclaimed author Bret Easton Ellis. Chairman Richard E. Snyder said the book, which was scheduled to be shipped to stores next month, would not be handled by Simon & Schuster. The
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Bioy Casares's surreal magic
Chicago Sun-Times
; Nicolasito Almanza, just arrived in La Plata, Argentina, after a nightlong bus ride, is hailed by strangers who are also new to the city. They ask Almanza to recommend a cafe where they can have breakfast. Why Almanza? Because, they say, city folk are not to be trusted. "We thought you were a
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