The Invention of Morel (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: An unidentified island
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Morel, Faustine, The Editor
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Islands, Holography, Pacific Ocean, Paranoia
- Locales: Islands
The Novel
The text of this short novel is presented as a diary of an unnamed narrator, a fugitive from justice, living on an island that he assumes is in the Ellice archipelago. The narrator has found the island with the help of a rug seller in Calcutta who told him about a group of people who came to the island in 1925, built several buildings, and then disappeared. The island is known to be the focal point of a mysterious disease that attacks the body and works inward, its victims losing fingernails and hair and, finally, skin.
After a period of time spent alone on the...
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