Adolfo Bioy Casares: Borges, Fiction and Art

249 Pages·2013·2.906 MB·English

by  Karl Posso

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Series Editors
Professor David George (Swansea University)
Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)
Editorial Board
David Frier (University of Leeds)
Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool)
Gareth Walters (Swansea University)
Rob Stone (Swansea University)
David Gies (University of Virginia)
Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham)
Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Borges, Fiction and Art
EDITED BY KARL PoSSo
UNIVERSITY oF WALES PRESS
CARDIFF
2012
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Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of figures xi
Note on translations xiii
Notes on contributors xv
Introduction: Rethinking Adolfo Bioy Casares 1
Karl Posso
Chapter 1: Adolfo Bioy Casares: a biographical sketch 39
John King
Chapter 2: Borges’s appendix: reflections on Bioy’s diary 59
Daniel Balderston
Chapter 3: Bioy and Borges: from the third man to the world
of Bustos Domecq 73
Michel Lafon
Chapter 4: Every man is an island: Bioy’s fiction 89
Stephen Henighan
Chapter 5: 1969: youth and rebellion in Diario de la guerra del cerdo
and Invasión 113
Jordana Blejmar
Chapter 6: The fantastic in Bioy’s short stories 129
Jesús Rodero
Chapter 7: Bioy, ocampo and the photographic image 143
Fiona J. Mackintosh
Chapter 8: To love in the infinitive: time, image and the powers of the
false in La invención de Morel 163
Karl Posso
Index 203
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Series Editors’ Foreword
over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model
in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been
superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach
to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and
Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the confines of the
Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking
and Lusophone Africa.
In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curricu-
lum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and
interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin
American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural
Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish,
Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin
America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics
of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and
the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting
terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same
regions.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Fiona J. Mackintosh with whom I began work on this
project a few years ago in a congenial upper corner of the University of
Edinburgh’s rather ascetic David Hume Tower. our discussions and her
enthusiasm proved invaluable, as did her ideas and outlines for parts of
a forerunner to the present Introduction. I am particularly grateful to
Ernesto Montequin for his assistance in selecting photographs from the
estate of Silvina ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Jean-Pierre Mourey,
Hugo Santiago, Miguel de Torre Borges, Compañía de Teatro Eva Halac
and Fundación San Telmo also generously provided photographs and art-
work and pledged their support for the volume. The ensemble of contribu-
tors owe thanks to more people than may be encompassed on this page.
Karl Posso
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