Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Bioy Casares's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32, rev. ed.; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 19, 43; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 4, 8, 13; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 113; Hispanic Literature Criticism; Hispanic Writers; Major 20th-Century Writers; and Short Story Criticism, Vol. 17.
- Bioy-Casares, Adolfo. "Chronology." Review, No. 15 (Fall 1975): 35-9. (Brief, humorous listing of events from Bioy Casares's life through 1975. He also cites various books and authors that influenced him at each stage of his life.)
- Polk, James. "Silly and Misguided about Love." The New York Times Book Review (6 November 1994): 37. (Favorable assessment of Selected Stories, noting Bioy Casares's focus on machismo, male-female relationships, and the "jarring of social and ethical norms.")
- Updike, John. "Hyperreality: 'In Borges's Wake'." In his Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism, pp. 685-93. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. (Comments on elements of mystery and intimations of the fantastic in Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, which Updike argues is a parody of "traditional novels." This article originally appeared in the 5 February 1990 edition of The New Yorker.)
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