false <![CDATA[The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171288814m/94486.jpg 94486 36 La Invención de Morel narra una extraña historia de amor protagonizada por un hombre y una mujer que viven existencias incompatibles en espacios y tiempos rivales. En ella, el talento de Adolfo Bioy Casares despliega una odisea de prodigios que, si en un primer momento no parecen admitir otra clave que la alucinación o el símbolo, son luego plenamente descifrados mediante un solo postulado fantástico, pero no sobrenatural. 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.<br><br>Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, 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. 2302985 book 1940 La Invención de Morel total:626|5:206|4:266|3:117|2:31|1:6| 626 2513 1133 109 5 7 false false Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 23:45:02 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 26 23:33:14 -0700 2009
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this is a perfectly good book. and a guy spending months on a sun dappled island amongst three dimensional phantoms re-enacting a single weekend is sublime. but this:

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The origin of that doubly intriguing and infuriating film, Last Year in Marienbad.

Written as diary enries, but without the tiresome fractured quality of those who stick too close to the structure.
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