The Invention of Morel (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: An unidentified island
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Islands, Holography, Pacific Ocean, Paranoia
- Locales: Islands
Characters Discussed
The narrator, an insecure, paranoid fugitive from Caracas, Venezuela. He is the only real character in the novel, which is his quasi-philosophical diary, written on an island that he believes to be part of the Ellice, or Lagoon, Islands in the Central Pacific. He does not mention his crime(s) but does admit to having been condemned to life imprisonment, a sentence that he repeatedly characterizes as unjust. He believed the island to be deserted until the day he began the diary, when a group of approximately a dozen people appeared in what appeared to be...
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