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Selected stories by Bioy Casares, Adolfo; Levine, Suzanne Jill is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Selected Stories, chosen from various collections published from the mid-'50s to the late '80s, is aptly divided into two parts, The Labyrinth of Love and Adverse Miracles, ample frames for the author's amatory tales and wry magical realism. It is a fine introduction to one of Latin America's leading modern writers - and a choice retrospective of the master storyteller who won the 1990 Cervantes Prize, Spain's most prestigious literary award, for his lifetime work.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>As might be expected from this master of modern Latin American literature, the 15 gems in this sparkling collection meld irony with romantic passion and reality with fantastic invention. In these stories, dating from 1959 to 1986 and grouped according to ``The Labyrinth of Love'' and ``Adverse Miracles,'' such themes as frustrated love, transfigured dreams and warped space-time become grist for the author's uniquely creative mill. The best pieces combine the wry irony of de Maupassant with the ingenious imagination of H.G. Wells: in ``About the Shape of the World,'' for example, a law student becomes entangled in a smuggling operation where a miraculous tunnel reduces the distance betwe
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo; Levine, Suzanne Jill
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811212755
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (46 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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