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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Adolfo Bioy Casares ABC.indd 1 26/09/2012 15:55:10 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) Other titles in the series Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power Helena Buffery & Carlota Caulfield From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage: The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film Stuart Nishan Green Modern Argentine Poetry: Exile, Displacement, Migration Ben Bollig Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy Kathryn Crameri Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain Roger Bartra The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y Cantares’ Nicolás Fernández-Medina The Novels of José Saramago: Echoes from the Past, Pathways into the Future David G. Frier Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Social Identity in Spain, 1850–1960 Richard Cleminson & Francisco Vázquez García Los Invisibles: A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1940 Richard Cleminson & Francisco Vázquez García Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture Yaw Agawu-Kakraba Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation Pablo San Martín Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities Eli Bartra The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes Tom Whittaker ABC.indd 2 26/09/2012 15:55:10 IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Adolfo Bioy Casares Borges, Fiction and Art EDITED BY KARL PoSSo UNIVERSITY oF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2012 ABC.indd 3 26/09/2012 15:55:10 © The Contributors, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff, CF10 4UP. www.uwp.co.uk British Library CIP A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978–0–7083–2537–7 e-ISBN 978–0–7083–2538–4 The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Typeset by Marie Doherty Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire ABC.indd 4 26/09/2012 15:55:10 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 ABC.indd 5 26/09/2012 15:55:10 ABC.indd 6 26/09/2012 15:55:10 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. ABC.indd 7 26/09/2012 15:55:10 ABC.indd 8 26/09/2012 15:55:10 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 ABC.indd 9 26/09/2012 15:55:10

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