Adolfo Bioy Casares wrote Argentine fantastic fiction in which impossible inventions, altered realities and philosophical puzzles are treated with calm, precise narration. The Invention of Morel follows a fugitive hiding on an apparently deserted island where a group of visitors repeatedly enact the same gestures; his attempt to understand them leads to a machine that records and reproduces reality in a disturbing new form. Asleep in the Sun turns domestic unease into a story about identity, bodies and a suspicious psychiatric institution, while A Plan for Escape develops another enclosed world governed by perception and experiment. Bioy Casares also collaborated extensively with Jorge Luis Borges, including detective stories under the name H. Bustos Domecq. His fiction is concise, strange and intellectually playful rather than ornate, sitting between speculative fiction, metaphysical fantasy and Latin American fantastic literature. Read more Less
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