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Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Lousie Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.
| ISBN | 1590170571 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781590170571
(What's this?) | | Pages | 112 | | Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | New York Review of Books Classics | | Weight (grammes) | 126 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 15 Sep 2003 | | Series title | New York Review Books Classics | | Translator | Levine, Susan Jill Simms, Ruth L. C. | | Height (mm) | 202 | | Writer of introduction | Borges, Jorge Luis | | Width (mm) | 127 | | Library of Congress | PQ7797.B53 | | Spine width (mm) | 7 | | DEWEY | 863.62 | | Academic level | General |
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"The masterpiece among Bioy Casares' short, intense novels is The Invention of Morel, a book that won raves from Borges (who placed it alongside Franz Kafka's The Trial), was called "perfect" by Octavio Paz, and inspired one of French cinema's most infamous moviesf, Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Though it was published in 1940, the book's continuing relevance was recently proven when it was featured on Lost -- a cameo many viewers perceive as a key to that TV show's plot. But that doesn't mean this is a tough tract unfit for quality beach time... Just know that Morel is a poetic evocation of the experience of love, an inquiry into how we know one another, and a still-relevant examination of how technology has changed our relationship with reality. It's also a great read -- one you'll be pressing into the hands of your fellow beach-goers." --Boldtype  Be the first to write a customer review
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