Bioy Casares, Adolfo (Vol. 4) - Bioy Casares, Adolfo 1914–
Bioy Casares, Adolfo 1914–
Bioy Casares is an Argentinian short story writer, novelist, and essayist. With his friend Jorge Luis Borges, he has written several volumes of short stories and one of film scripts. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32.)
We hear sad murmurs that our century lacks the ability to devise interesting plots. But no one attempts to prove that if this century has any ascendancy over the preceding ones it lies in the quality of its plots…. I believe I am free from every superstition of modernity, of any illusion that yesterday differs intimately from today or will differ from tomorrow; but I maintain that during no other era have there been novels with such admirable plots as The Turn of the Screw, Der Prozess, Le Voyageur sur la terre, and [The Invention of Morel], which was written in Buenos Aires by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
[One] popular genre in this so-called plotless century is the...
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