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Adolfo Bioy Casares

January 19, 2024

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bioy and the second or maternal family name is Casares.

Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo ˈβjoj kaˈsaɾes]; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Bioy Casares in 1968
Born(1914-09-15)15 September 1914
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died8 March 1999(1999-03-08) (aged 84)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting placeLa Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
Occupations
  • Writer
  • poet
  • critic
  • librarian
Notable workThe Invention of Morel
Spouse
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(m. 1940; died 1993)​
AwardsMiguel de Cervantes Prize (1991)

Biography edit

Adolfo Bioy Casares was born on September 15, 1914, in Buenos Aires, the only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares Lynch. He was born in Recoleta, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper-class families, where he would reside the majority of his life. Due to his family's high social class, he was able to dedicate himself exclusively to literature and, at the same time, distinguish his work from the traditional literary medium of his time. He wrote his first story ("Iris y Margarita") at the age of eleven. He began his secondary education in the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Later, he started but did not end up finishing degrees in law, philosophy, and literature. Fueled by disappointment with the university atmosphere, he moved to a family ranch where, when he didn't have visitors, he devoted himself almost entirely to his study of literature. By the time he reached his late twenties, he maintained proficiency in Spanish, English, French (which he spoke from the age of 4) and German. Between 1929 and 1937 Bioy Casares published a number of books (Prólogo, 17 disparos contra lo porvenir, Caos, La nueva tormenta, La estatua casera, Luis Greve, muerto) that he would later disdain, restricting additional publications and refusing to discuss them, labeling all his work previous to 1940 as 'horrible'.

In 1932 he met Jorge Luis Borges at Villa Ocampo, a house in San Isidro belonging to Victoria Ocampo. There, she often hosted different international figures and organized cultural celebrations, one of which brought Borges and Bioy Casares together. Bioy Casares recalled that on that particular occasion, the two writers stepped away from the rest of the guests, only to be reprimanded by Ocampo.[1] This reproach provoked them to leave the gathering and return to the city together. The journey sealed a lifelong friendship and many influential literary collaborations. Under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq and Benito Suárez Lynch, the two teamed up on a variety of projects from short 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, a genre that Borges greatly admired. In 2006, Borges, a biographical volume of more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares' journals, revealed many additional details of the friendship shared by the two writers. Bioy Casares had already prepared and corrected the texts some time previously, but he never was able to publish them himself.

In 1940, he published the short novel The Invention of Morel, which marked the beginning of his literary maturity. The novel's introduction was written by Borges, in which he comments on the absence of precursors to science fiction in Spanish literature, presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of a new genre. The novella was very well accepted and received the Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura (First Municipal Prize of Literature) in 1941. During this same time, in collaboration with Borges and Silvina Ocampo, he published two anthologies: Antología de la literatura fantástica (1940) y Antología poética argentina (1941).

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

Bioy won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French Legion of Honour (1981), the Diamond Konex Award of Literature (1994) the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares). Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

Works edit

The best-known novel by Bioy Casares is La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel). It is the story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease. Struggling to understand why everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings, made with a special machine, invented by Morel, which is able to record not only three-dimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all indistinguishable from reality. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science fiction and terror. Borges wrote an introduction in which he called it a work of "reasoned imagination" and linked it to H. G. Wells' oeuvre. Both Borges and Octavio Paz described the novel as "perfect". The story is held to be the inspiration for Alan Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad[2] and an influence on the TV series Lost.

Novels and novellas

  • La nueva tormenta o la vida de Juan Ruteno, 167 pp. (1935; "The New Storm or The Life of Juan Ruteno")
  • La invención de Morel, 126 pp. (1940; translated into English as The Invention of Morel, 1964, ISBN 1-59017-057-1)
  • El perjurio de la nieve, 64 pp. (1944; "The Snow's Perjury")
  • Plan de evasión, 162 pp. (1945; translated into English as A Plan for Escape, 1975, ISBN 1-55597-107-5)
  • El sueño de los héroes, 216 pp. (1954; translated into English as The Dream of 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 English as Diary of the War of the Pig, 1972, ISBN 0-07-073742-8)
  • Dormir al Sol, 229 pp. (1973; translated into English as Asleep in the Sun, 1978, ISBN 0-89255-030-9)
  • La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata, 223 pp. (1985; translated into English as The Adventures of 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 Celestial Plot")
  • Las vísperas de Fausto, 15 pp. (1949; "Faust's Eve")
  • Historia prodigiosa, 151 pp. (1956; "A Remarkable History")
  • El lado de la sombra, 192 pp. (1962; "The Shady Side")
  • El gran serafín, 190 pp. (1967; "The Great Seraph")
  • El héroe de 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 as A Russian Doll and Other Stories, 1992, ISBN 0-8112-1211-4)

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

Essays

 
Bioy Casares with Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges, en Mar del Plata, imagen del fotógrafo Enrico Miagro
  • La otra aventura, 153 pp. (1968, "The Other Adventure")
  • Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos, 57 pp. (1970, "Memoir on the Pampas and the Gauchos")

Miscellanies (mixed collections of stories, poems, essays, reflections, 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 Affected Argentineans")

Letters

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

Diaries

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

Works written in collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges

  • Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942; translated into English as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, 1981, ISBN 0-525-48035-8)
  • Dos fantasías memorables (1946; "Two Memorable Fantasies")
  • Un modelo para la muerte (1946; "A Model for Death")
  • Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (1955; "Short and Amazing Stories")
  • Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967; translated into English as 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 first 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 collaboration with Daniel Martino

  • Borges (2006).

Screenplays written in collaboration 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)

References edit

  1. ^ «El tercer hombre.» 22 de agosto de 1999. August 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Clarín.
  2. ^ Thomas Beltzer, Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation .

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Adolfo Bioy Casares.
 
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  • at literatura.org (in Spanish)
  • logosfreebooks.org biography of Bioy Casares (in Spanish)
  • Published online in www.Argentina.ar (in English)

January 19, 2024
adolfo, bioy, casares, this, spanish, name, first, paternal, surname, bioy, second, maternal, family, name, casares, spanish, pronunciation, aˈðolfo, ˈβjoj, kaˈsaɾes, september, 1914, march, 1999, argentine, fiction, writer, journalist, diarist, translator, fr. In this Spanish name the first or paternal surname is Bioy and the second or maternal family name is Casares Adolfo Bioy Casares Spanish pronunciation aˈdolfo ˈbjoj kaˈsaɾes 15 September 1914 8 March 1999 was an Argentine fiction writer journalist diarist and translator He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel Adolfo Bioy CasaresBioy Casares in 1968Born 1914 09 15 15 September 1914Buenos Aires ArgentinaDied8 March 1999 1999 03 08 aged 84 Buenos Aires ArgentinaResting placeLa Recoleta Cemetery Buenos AiresOccupationsWriterpoetcriticlibrarianNotable workThe Invention of MorelSpouseSilvina Ocampo m 1940 died 1993 wbr AwardsMiguel de Cervantes Prize 1991 Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 References 4 External linksBiography editAdolfo Bioy Casares was born on September 15 1914 in Buenos Aires the only child of Adolfo Bioy Domecq and Marta Ignacia Casares Lynch He was born in Recoleta a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper class families where he would reside the majority of his life Due to his family s high social class he was able to dedicate himself exclusively to literature and at the same time distinguish his work from the traditional literary medium of his time He wrote his first story Iris y Margarita at the age of eleven He began his secondary education in the Instituto Libre de Segunda Ensenanza at the Universidad de Buenos Aires Later he started but did not end up finishing degrees in law philosophy and literature Fueled by disappointment with the university atmosphere he moved to a family ranch where when he didn t have visitors he devoted himself almost entirely to his study of literature By the time he reached his late twenties he maintained proficiency in Spanish English French which he spoke from the age of 4 and German Between 1929 and 1937 Bioy Casares published a number of books Prologo 17 disparos contra lo porvenir Caos La nueva tormenta La estatua casera Luis Greve muerto that he would later disdain restricting additional publications and refusing to discuss them labeling all his work previous to 1940 as horrible In 1932 he met Jorge Luis Borges at Villa Ocampo a house in San Isidro belonging to Victoria Ocampo There she often hosted different international figures and organized cultural celebrations one of which brought Borges and Bioy Casares together Bioy Casares recalled that on that particular occasion the two writers stepped away from the rest of the guests only to be reprimanded by Ocampo 1 This reproach provoked them to leave the gathering and return to the city together The journey sealed a lifelong friendship and many influential literary collaborations Under the pseudonyms H Bustos Domecq and Benito Suarez Lynch the two teamed up on a variety of projects from short stories Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi Dos fantasias memorables Un modelo para la muerte to screenplays Los orilleros Invasion and fantastic fiction Antologia de la literatura fantastica Cuentos breves y extraordinarios Between 1945 and 1955 they directed El septimo circulo The Seventh Circle a collection of translations of popular English detective fiction a genre that Borges greatly admired In 2006 Borges a biographical volume of more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares journals revealed many additional details of the friendship shared by the two writers Bioy Casares had already prepared and corrected the texts some time previously but he never was able to publish them himself In 1940 he published the short novel The Invention of Morel which marked the beginning of his literary maturity The novel s introduction was written by Borges in which he comments on the absence of precursors to science fiction in Spanish literature presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of a new genre The novella was very well accepted and received the Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura First Municipal Prize of Literature in 1941 During this same time in collaboration with Borges and Silvina Ocampo he published two anthologies Antologia de la literatura fantastica 1940 y Antologia poetica argentina 1941 In 1940 Bioy Casares married Silvina Ocampo Victoria s sister who was a painter as well as a writer In 1954 one of Bioy Casares mistresses gave birth in the United States to his daughter Marta who was subsequently adopted by his wife Silvina Marta was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo s death leaving Adolfo with two children The estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires court to yet another love child of Adolfo Bioy Casares Fabian Bioy Fabian Bioy died aged 40 in Paris France on 11 February 2006 Bioy won several awards including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE the Argentine Society of Writers 1975 the French Legion of Honour 1981 the Diamond Konex Award of Literature 1994 the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires 1986 and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize awarded to him in 1991 in Alcala de Henares Adolfo Bioy Casares is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery Buenos Aires Works editThe best known novel by Bioy Casares is La invencion de Morel The Invention of Morel It is the story of a man who evading justice escapes to an island said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease Struggling to understand why everything seems to repeat he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings made with a special machine invented by Morel which is able to record not only three dimensional images but also voices and scents making it all indistinguishable from reality The story mixes realism fantasy science fiction and terror Borges wrote an introduction in which he called it a work of reasoned imagination and linked it to H G Wells oeuvre Both Borges and Octavio Paz described the novel as perfect The story is held to be the inspiration for Alan Resnais s Last Year at Marienbad 2 and an influence on the TV series Lost Novels and novellas La nueva tormenta o la vida de Juan Ruteno 167 pp 1935 The New Storm or The Life of Juan Ruteno La invencion de Morel 126 pp 1940 translated into English as The Invention of Morel 1964 ISBN 1 59017 057 1 El perjurio de la nieve 64 pp 1944 The Snow s Perjury Plan de evasion 162 pp 1945 translated into English as A Plan for Escape 1975 ISBN 1 55597 107 5 El sueno de los heroes 216 pp 1954 translated into English as The Dream of 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 English as Diary of the War of the Pig 1972 ISBN 0 07 073742 8 Dormir al Sol 229 pp 1973 translated into English as Asleep in the Sun 1978 ISBN 0 89255 030 9 La aventura de un fotografo en La Plata 223 pp 1985 translated into English as The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata 1989 ISBN 0 7475 0798 8 Un campeon 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 Celestial Plot Las visperas de Fausto 15 pp 1949 Faust s Eve Historia prodigiosa 151 pp 1956 A Remarkable History El lado de la sombra 192 pp 1962 The Shady Side El gran serafin 190 pp 1967 The Great Seraph El heroe de las mujeres 191 pp 1978 The Hero of Women Historias desaforadas 231 pp 1986 Colossal Stories Una muneca rusa 179 pp 1991 translated into English as A Russian Doll and Other Stories 1992 ISBN 0 8112 1211 4 Generally these Spanish language collections have not been systematically translated into English English language collections include Selected Stories 176 pp 1994 ISBN 0 8112 1275 0 Essays nbsp Bioy Casares with Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges en Mar del Plata imagen del fotografo Enrico MiagroLa otra aventura 153 pp 1968 The Other Adventure Memoria sobre la pampa y los gauchos 57 pp 1970 Memoir on the Pampas and the Gauchos Miscellanies mixed collections of stories poems essays reflections aphorisms etc Prologo 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 Affected Argentineans Letters En viaje 1967 260 pp 1996 Travelling in 1967 letters to Silvina Ocampo Edited by Daniel Martino Diaries Descanso de caminantes Diarios intimos 507 pp 2001 Rest for Travellers and Intimate Diaries a selection from his Journals Edited by Daniel Martino Works written in collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi 1942 translated into English as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi 1981 ISBN 0 525 48035 8 Dos fantasias memorables 1946 Two Memorable Fantasies Un modelo para la muerte 1946 A Model for Death Cuentos breves y extraordinarios 1955 Short and Amazing Stories Cronicas de Bustos Domecq 1967 translated into English as 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 fantasias memorables and Un modelo para la muerte were originally published in private printings of only 300 copies The first 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 collaboration with Daniel Martino Borges 2006 Screenplays written in collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges Los orilleros 1955 The Hoodlums El paraiso de los creyentes 1955 The Paradise of the Believers Invasion 1969 Invasion The Others 1974 References edit El tercer hombre 22 de agosto de 1999 Archived August 21 2016 at the Wayback Machine Clarin Thomas Beltzer Last Year at Marienbad An Intertextual Meditation 1 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Adolfo Bioy Casares nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adolfo Bioy Casares Caricature and obituary at literatura org in Spanish logosfreebooks org biography of Bioy Casares in Spanish Spanish language page on Bioy Casares including links to some passages from his works Bioy renowned around the world Published online in www Argentina ar in English Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adolfo Bioy Casares amp oldid 1175718804, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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