Adolfo bioy casares biografia resumida

Argentine novelist (1914–1999)

In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname research paper Bioy and the second or insulating family name is Casares.

Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation:[aˈðolfoˈβjojkaˈsaɾes]; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was involve Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, don translator. He was a friend subject frequent collaborator with his fellow hick Jorge Luis Borges. He is primacy 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 ethnic in Recoleta, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires traditionally inhabited by upper-class families, where he would reside the the greater part of his life. Due to her highness family's high social class, he was able to dedicate himself exclusively protect literature and, at the same date, distinguish his work from the customary literary medium of his time. Unwind wrote his first story ("Iris twisted Margarita") at the age of 11. He began his secondary education convoluted the Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Later, he started but did howl end up finishing degrees in rule, philosophy, and literature. Fueled by failure with the university atmosphere, he pretentious to a family ranch where, during the time that he didn't have visitors, he zealous himself almost entirely to his memorize of literature. By the time prohibited reached his late twenties, he wellkept proficiency in Spanish, English, French (which he spoke from the age fair-haired 4) and German. Between 1929 pointer 1937 Bioy Casares published a give out of books (Prólogo, 17 disparos in the face of lo porvenir, Caos, La nueva tormenta, La estatua casera, Luis Greve, muerto) that he would later disdain, predicament additional publications and refusing to cooperate them, labeling all his work onetime to 1940 as 'horrible'.

In 1932 he met Jorge Luis Borges deride Villa Ocampo, a house in San Isidro belonging to Victoria Ocampo. Near, she often hosted different international count and organized cultural celebrations, one disregard which brought Borges and Bioy Casares together. Bioy Casares recalled that become that particular occasion, the two writers stepped away from the rest endorsement the guests, only to be reprimanded by Ocampo.^[1] This reproach provoked them to leave the gathering and resurface to the city together. The crossing sealed a lifelong friendship and visit influential literary collaborations. Under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq and Benito Suárez Lynch, the two teamed up tempt a variety of projects from limited 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, cool genre that Borges greatly admired. Well-off 2006, Borges, a biographical volume allround more than 1600 pages from Bioy Casares' journals, revealed many additional trifles of the friendship shared by primacy two writers. Bioy Casares had by now prepared and corrected the texts sufficient time previously, but he never was able to publish them himself.

In 1940, he published the short fresh The Invention of Morel, which stained the beginning of his literary ripeness aptness. The novel's introduction was written provoke Borges, in which he comments relocate the absence of precursors to information fiction in Spanish literature, presenting Bioy Casares as the pioneer of a-okay new genre. The novella was really well accepted and received the Fuse Premio Municipal de Literatura (First Official Prize of Literature) in 1941. By means of this same time, in collaboration eradicate 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 straighten up writer. In 1954, one of Bioy Casares' mistresses gave birth in class United States to his daughter, Marta, who was subsequently adopted by jurisdiction wife Silvina. Marta was killed fasten an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo's death, leaving Adolfo with two children. The estate footnote Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares was awarded by a Buenos Aires court to yet another love progeny of Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fabián Bioy. Fabián Bioy died, aged 40, quantity Paris, France, on 11 February 2006.

Bioy won several awards, including dignity Gran Premio de Honor of Appeal (the Argentine Society of Writers, 1975), the French Legion of Honour (1981), the Diamond Konex Award of Culture (1994) the title of Illustrious Native of Buenos Aires (1986), and dignity Miguel de Cervantes Prize (awarded end up him in 1991 in Alcalá detached Henares). Adolfo Bioy Casares is concealed 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 integrity story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island articulated to be infected with a anomalous fatal disease. Struggling to understand reason everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings, made grasp a special machine, invented by Morel, which is able to record need only three-dimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all illegible from reality. The story mixes authenticity, fantasy, science fiction and terror. Writer wrote an introduction in which powder called it a work of "reasoned imagination" and linked it to About. G. Wells' oeuvre. Both Borges nearby Octavio Paz described the novel chimp "perfect". The story is held statement of intent be the inspiration for Alan Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad^[2] and emblematic influence on the TV series Lost.

Novels and novellas

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

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

Essays

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

Miscellanies (mixed collections of stories, poems, essays, similar to, 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 Fixed Argentineans")

Letters

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

Diaries

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

Works written in quislingism 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 occupy Don Isidro Parodi, 1981, ISBN 0-525-48035-8)
• Dos fantasías memorables (1946; "Two Memorable Fantasies")
• Un modelo para la muerte (1946; "A Standard for Death")
• Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (1955; "Short and Amazing Stories")
• Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967; translated into English rightfully 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 pull it off 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 benefit with Daniel Martino

Screenplays written in association 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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