"e;The controversial works of Brazilian authors Silviano Santiago(1936-) and Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96) offer distinctive but complementary explorations of male homosexual subjectivities formulated through displacement, exile and the abject...
A reassessment of Argentinian poet and critic, Alejandra PizarnikThirty-five years after her death, this book reassesses the Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) in the light of recent publications of her 'complete' poetry and prose, diar...
"Lifelong friend and literary partner of Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares stands undoubtedly among the finest Argentine writers of the Twentieth Century. Fundamental to the development of fantastic genre and science fiction in the Rio de la Plata, his prose has been somehow neglected until recently by audiences outside Latin America. In 'Adolfo Bioy Casares. Borges, Fiction and Art', a group of leading scholars on Latin American Literature examines the full range of Bioy Casares' work through illuminating essays, offering a detailed historical, political and cultural contextualization of one of the finest author's from Argentina." Professor Florencia Garramuno, University of San Andres
Karl Posso is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester.
Introduction Rethinking Adolfo Bioy Casares Karl Posso Chapter 1 Adolfo Bioy Casares: A Biographical Sketch John King Chapter 2 Borges's Appendix: Reflections on Bioy's Diary Daniel Balderston Chapter 3 Bioy and Borges: From the Third Man to the World of Bustos Domecq Michel Lafon Chapter 4 Every Man is an Island: Bioy's Fiction Stephen Henighan Chapter 5 1969: Youth and Rebellion in Diario de la guerra del cerdo and Invasion Jordana Blejmar Chapter 6 The Fantastic in Bioy's Short Stories Jesus Rodero Chapter 7 Bioy, Ocampo and the Photographic Image Fiona J. Mackintosh Chapter 8 To Love in the Infinitive: Time, Image and the Powers of the False in La invencion de Morel Karl Posso