The Invention of Morel
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. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.
Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to find such admirers as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, this classic of modern Latin-American literature also changed the history of film.
- Author
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L.C. Simms, Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Norah Borges de Torre
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 103
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781590170571
- Characters
- Dora, Irene, El fugitivo, Faustine, Morel
- Genres
- fiction, classics, literature, fantasy, novels, novella
- Release date
- 2003
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