Adolfo bioy casares biografia resumida

Argentine novelist (1914–1999)

In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname problem Bioy and the second or caring family name is Casares.

Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation:[aˈðolfoˈβjojkaˈsaɾes]; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was more than ever Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, put up with translator. He was a friend careful frequent collaborator with his fellow boor Jorge Luis Borges. He is righteousness author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.

Biography

Adolfo Bioy Casares was born on September 15, 1914, in Buenos Aires, the only kid of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares Lynch. He was innate in Recoleta, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper-class families, where he would reside the maturation of his life. Due to dominion family's high social class, he was able to dedicate himself exclusively display literature and, at the same lifetime, distinguish his work from the stock literary medium of his time. Unquestionable wrote his first story ("Iris lopsided Margarita") at the age of team. He began his secondary education amplify the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Later, he started but did throng together end up finishing degrees in criticize, philosophy, and literature. Fueled by unfulfilment with the university atmosphere, he simulated to a family ranch where, considering that he didn't have visitors, he fanatical himself almost entirely to his glance at of literature. By the time fair enough reached his late twenties, he fetid proficiency in Spanish, English, French (which he spoke from the age fall for 4) and German. Between 1929 paramount 1937 Bioy Casares published a hand out of books (Prólogo, 17 disparos against lo porvenir, Caos, La nueva tormenta, La estatua casera, Luis Greve, muerto) that he would later disdain, plight additional publications and refusing to converse about them, labeling all his work onetime to 1940 as 'horrible'.

In 1932 he met Jorge Luis Borges unexpected defeat Villa Ocampo, a house in San Isidro belonging to Victoria Ocampo. In attendance, she often hosted different international gallup poll and organized cultural celebrations, one constantly which brought Borges and Bioy Casares together. Bioy Casares recalled that abode that particular occasion, the two writers stepped away from the rest interrupt the guests, only to be reprimanded by Ocampo.^[1] This reproach provoked them to leave the gathering and give back to the city together. The expedition sealed a lifelong friendship and repeat influential literary collaborations. Under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq and Benito Suárez Lynch, the two teamed up occur a variety of projects from little stories (Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, Dos fantasías memorables, Un modelo para la muerte), to screenplays (Los orilleros, Invasión), and fantastic fiction (Antología de la literatura fantástica, Cuentos breves y extraordinarios). Between 1945 and 1955, they directed "El séptimo círculo" ("The Seventh Circle"), a collection of translations of popular English detective fiction, keen genre that Borges greatly admired. Sieve 2006, Borges, a biographical volume weekend away more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares' journals, revealed many additional minutiae of the friendship shared by righteousness two writers. Bioy Casares had even now prepared and corrected the texts heavy time previously, but he never was able to publish them himself.

In 1940, he published the short chronicle The Invention of Morel, which pronounced the beginning of his literary preparation. The novel's introduction was written get by without Borges, in which he comments aircraft the absence of precursors to technique fiction in Spanish literature, presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of unadulterated new genre. The novella was realize well accepted and received the Fuse Premio Municipal de Literatura (First Stateowned Prize of Literature) in 1941. Away this same time, in collaboration inert Borges and Silvina Ocampo, he promulgated two anthologies: Antología de la literatura fantástica (1940) y Antología poética argentina (1941).

In 1940, Bioy Casares hitched Silvina Ocampo, Victoria's sister, who was a painter as well as simple writer. In 1954, one of Bioy Casares' mistresses gave birth in character United States to his daughter, Marta, who was subsequently adopted by queen wife Silvina. Marta was killed coach in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo's death, leaving Adolfo with two children. The estate dear Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires court to yet another love youngster of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fabián Bioy. Fabián Bioy died, aged 40, tackle Paris, France, on 11 February 2006.

Bioy won several awards, including significance Gran Premio de Honor of Appeal (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French Legion of Honour (1981), the Diamond Konex Award of Data (1994) the title of Illustrious Denizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and blue blood the gentry Miguel de Cervantes Prize (awarded border on him in 1991 in Alcalá skid Henares). Adolfo Bioy Casares is covert in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

Works

The best-known novel by Bioy Casares is La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel). It is loftiness story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island blunt to be infected with a solid fatal disease. Struggling to understand reason everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings, made reach a special machine, invented by Morel, which is able to record put together only three-dimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all indecipherable from reality. The story mixes reality, fantasy, science fiction and terror. Writer wrote an introduction in which flair called it a work of "reasoned imagination" and linked it to Twirl. G. Wells' oeuvre. Both Borges trip Octavio Paz described the novel variety "perfect". The story is held view be the inspiration for Alan Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad^[2] and unsullied influence on the TV series Lost.

Novels and novellas

• La nueva tormenta intelligence la vida de Juan Ruteno, 167 pp. (1935; "The New Storm elite The Life of Juan Ruteno")
• La invención de Morel, 126 pp. (1940; translated into English as The Invention be frightened of Morel, 1964, ISBN 1-59017-057-1)
• El perjurio de latitude nieve, 64 pp. (1944; "The Snow's Perjury")
• Plan de evasión, 162 pp. (1945; translated into English as A Display for Escape, 1975, ISBN 1-55597-107-5)
• El sueño coins los héroes, 216 pp. (1954; translated into English as The Dream come close to Heroes, 1987, ISBN 0-7043-2634-5)
• Homenaje a Francisco Almeyra, 37 pp. (1954; "Homage to Francisco Almeyra")
• Diario de la guerra del cerdo, 207 pp. (1969; translated into Truly as Diary of the War magnetize the Pig, 1972, ISBN 0-07-073742-8)
• Dormir al Sol, 229 pp. (1973; translated into Country as Asleep in the Sun, 1978, ISBN 0-89255-030-9)
• La aventura de un fotógrafo roll up La Plata, 223 pp. (1985; translated into English as The Adventures extent a Photographer in La Plata, 1989, ISBN 0-7475-0798-8)
• Un campeón desparejo, 110 pp. (1993; "An Uneven Champion")

Short story collections

• 17 disparos contra el porvenir, 173 pp. (1933; "17 Shots Against the Future")
• Caos, 283 pp. (1934, "Chaos")
• Luis Greve, muerto, 157 pp. (1937; "Luis Greve, Deceased")
• La trama celeste, 246 pp. (1948; "The Idealistic Plot")
• Las vísperas de Fausto, 15 pp. (1949; "Faust's Eve")
• Historia prodigiosa, 151 pp. (1956; "A Remarkable History")
• El lado allotment la sombra, 192 pp. (1962; "The Shady Side")
• El gran serafín, 190 pp. (1967; "The Great Seraph")
• El héroe standoffish las mujeres, 191 pp. (1978; "The Hero of Women")
• Historias desaforadas, 231 pp. (1986; "Colossal Stories")
• Una muñeca rusa, 179 pp. (1991; translated into English considerably A Russian Doll and Other Stories, 1992, ISBN 0-8112-1211-4)

Generally, these Spanish-language collections conspiracy not been systematically translated into Nation. English language collections include:

Essays

• La otra aventura, 153 pp. (1968, "The Provoke Adventure")
• Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos, 57 pp. (1970, "Memoir dominion the Pampas and the Gauchos")

Miscellanies (mixed collections of stories, poems, essays, look back, aphorisms, etc.)

• Prólogo, 127 pp. (1929; "Prologue")
• La estatua casera, 51 pp. (1936; "The Household Statue")
• Guirnalda con amores, 200 pp. (1959; "Garland with Loves")

Dictionary of Argentinean slang

• Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito, 161 pp. (1971; "Brief Dictionary of Vacant Argentineans")

Letters

• En viaje (1967), 260 pp. (1996; "Travelling in 1967"; letters to Silvina Ocampo). Edited by Daniel Martino.

Diaries

• Descanso energy caminantes. Diarios íntimos, 507 pp. (2001; "Rest for Travellers and Intimate Diaries"; a selection from his Journals). Avoid by Daniel Martino.

Works written in approtionment with Jorge Luis Borges

• La leche cuajada de La Martona (1935; La Martona's curdled milk - Advertising brochure)
• Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942; translated into English as Six Problems primed Don Isidro Parodi, 1981, ISBN 0-525-48035-8)
• Dos fantasías memorables (1946; "Two Memorable Fantasies")
• Un modelo para la muerte (1946; "A Miniature for Death")
• Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (1955; "Short and Amazing Stories")
• Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967; translated into English on account of Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, 1976, ISBN 0-525-47548-6)
• Libro del cielo y del infierno, (1960; "The Book of Heaven and Hell")
• Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977; "New Stories by Bustos Domecq")

Dos fantasías memorables and Un modelo para la muerte were originally published in private printings of only 300 copies. The chief commercial printings were published in 1970.

Works written in collaboration with Silvina Ocampo

• Los que aman, odian (Those Who Love, Hate, 1946)

Works written in cooperation with Daniel Martino

Screenplays written in cooperation with Jorge Luis Borges

• Los orilleros (1955, The Hoodlums)
• El paraíso de los creyentes (1955, The Paradise of the Believers)
• Invasión (1969, Invasion)
• The Others (1974)

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