L' invenzione di Morel

OUTSTANDING! A fugitive man arrives to a mysterious island around Polynesia, and deeply falls in love at first sight with a beautiful lovely lady, Faustine. But there’s something wrong, she doesn’t seem to notice or care about anything he does or says; in fact, everyone on the island completely ig Leggi tutto

The Invention of Morel was adjudged a perfect work by Jorge Luis Borges, the author’s mentor/friend/frequent collaborator. Anybody familiar with the essays and short fiction of Borges can appreciate what it means for one of the great masters of world literature to make such a pronouncement. Perhaps Leggi tutto

The Invention of Morel is a very specific tale on the nature of time and our perception of it. An outcast is beached on a small island where he finds some deserted edifices, tortured by solitude he is in despair… But suddenly everything changes… When I was finally able to sleep, it was very late. The Leggi tutto

The Invention of Morel is a romantic classic in which passion triumphs over convention, a surrealist classic in which imagination triumphs over reality, a science fiction classic in which technology triumphs over time, and a mystery story whose fantastic resolution always plays fair with the reader. Leggi tutto

‘ I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness. ’ How often we feel like an island, alone in a world and beleaguered by the crashing waves of change, responsibility and heartache eroding our soil. Adolfo Bioy Casares presents us a chilling and empathetic Leggi tutto

***************************************************** «Πιστεύω πως χάνουμε την αθανασία γιατί δεν έχει εξελιχθεί η αντίστασή μας στο θάνατο· οι τελειοποιήσεις της επιμένουν στην πρωταρχική, τη στοιχειώδη ιδέα: να διατηρήσουμε ζωντανό ολόκληρο το σώμα. Θα 'πρεπε να επιζητούμε τη διατήρηση αυτού που εν Leggi tutto

"To classify it as perfect is neither an imprecision nor a hyperbole." That is how Jorge Luis Borges chooses to praise the story in the prologue he wrote for The Invention of Morel . It is difficult to argue the truth of this opinion on this seminal work of fantastic fiction. However, one thing is for Leggi tutto