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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Biography
Adolfo Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires in 1914. He wrote his first novel when he was eleven. He studied a the University of Buenos Aires, starting courses in law, philosophy and literature, but not completing any of them. He then decided to study literature on his own. When he was eighteen he met Borges, with whom he collaborated on a few books under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq, and, two years later, he met the writer Silvina Ocampo, whom he later married. La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel), his most famous novel, was published in 1940, the year he married Ocampo. He has said the novel was inspired by the image of the actress, Louise Brooks. Borges considered him one of the greatest Argentinian writers. Like Borges, he is best remembered for his contributions to the literature of the fantastic. He died in 1999.
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1929 Prólogo (stories)
1933 17 disparos contra lo porvenir (stories)
1934 Caos (stories)
1935 La nueva tormenta; o, La vida múltiple de Juan Ruteno (novel)
1936 La estatua casera (miscellaneous)
1937 Luis Greve, muerto (stories)
1940 La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel) (novel)
1942 Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (with Borges)
1944 El perjuiro de la nieve
1945 Plan de evasión (A Plan for Escape) (novel)
1946 Dos Fantasías memorables (with Borges)
1946 Los que aman, odian (Where There’s Love, There’s Hate) (with Silvina Ocampo)
1946 Un modelo para la muerte (with Borges)
1948 La trama celeste (stories)
1949 Las vísperas de Fausto (story)
1954 El sueño de los héroes (The Dream of Heroes) ((novel)
1956 Historia prodigiosa (stories)
1959 Guirnalda con amores (stories)
1962 El lado de la sombra (stories)
1967 Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (with Borges)
1967 El gran serafín (stories)
1967 En viaje (correspondence)
1968 La otra aventura (essay)
1969 Diario de la guerra del cerdo (novel)
1969 Adversos milagros : relatos (stories)
1970 Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos
1971 Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito
1972 Historias fantásticas (stories)
1972 Historias de amor (stories)
1973 Diario de la guerra del cerdo (Diary of the War of the Pig) (novel)
1973 Dormir al sol (Asleep in the Sun) (novel)
1977 Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (with Borges)
1978 El héroe de las mujeres (stories)
1985 Aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata (The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata) (novel)
1986 Historia desaforadas (stories)
1989 ABC de Adolfo Bioy Casares : reflexiones y observaciones tomadas de su obra
1991 Clave para un amor (story
1991 Unos días en el Brasil (journal)
1991 Una muñeca rusa (A Russian Doll and Other Stories) (stories)
1993 Un campeón desparejo (novel)
1994 Máscaras venecianas ; La sierva ajena (stories)
1994 Memorias (memoirs)
1997 De jardines ajenos : libro abierto (selected texts)
1997 Una magia modesta (stories)
1997 Obras completas
1998 De un mundo a otro (novel)
1999 De las cosas maravillosas (essay)
2001 Descanso de caminantes (journal)
2003 Museo. Textos inéditos (with Borges)
2006 Borges (journal)