Bioy Casares, Adolfo (Vol. 8) - Bioy Casares, Adolfo 1914–
Bioy Casares, Adolfo 1914–
Bioy Casares is an Argentinian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and screenwriter. He is an inventive, imaginative writer whose name is frequently linked with Jorge Luis Borges. The two have, in fact, collaborated on film scripts, and like his fellow Argentinian, Bioy Casares is preoccupied with labyrinths and metaphysical puzzles. He has also published under the pseudonyms Martin Sacastru and Javier Miranda, and has collaborated with Borges under the joint pseudonyms H(onorio) Bustos Domecq and B. Suarez Lynch. (See also CLC, Vol. 4, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32, rev. ed.)
Borges greatly influenced Adolfo Bioy Casares … and collaborated with him on a number of books, including the well-known Antologia de la literatura fantástica (1940), a landmark in Spanish American magic realism, to which [Bioy Casares' wife] Silvina Ocampo also contributed…. In his collaborations with Borges...
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