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In 1940, the year of publication for The Invention of Morel, ideas about what would become TV where "in the air" what really had a grip on people’s imagination in the 1920s and 1930s was film, first silent film then film with sound.

Black and White 1940s TV was as raw as raw can be – just look at those 1949 TV shows on You Tube. The first commercially successful sound film, The Jazz Singer, was released in 1929. The 1920s were the heyday of silent films. You might want to read my review AFTER you've read the book.Īnyway, for the purpose of this review, I will take a specific focus: the relationship between the novel and the author’s and our own experience of film and television. Bloy Casares' short novel is akin to Borges' writing in Doctor Brodie’s Report and The Book of Sand, where Borges let go of his more ornate, baroque style.

Similar to stories like The Circular Ruin, The Aleph and many other Borges tales, The Invention of Morel deals with multiple levels of so called reality.

The Invention of Morel is only one hundred pages, not too much longer than a number of Borges’s longer tales.

More specifically, here are some obvious similarities between the writing of the two authors: Perhaps Borges’ appraisal reflects, in part, how Adolfo Bioy Casares shares much of his own aesthetic and literary sensibilities since, after all, they collaborated on twelve books. 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. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet?s Last Year at Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.The Invention of Morel was adjudged a perfect work by Jorge Luis Borges, the author’s mentor/friend/frequent collaborator. Greatly admired by Julio Cort?zar, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction?s now famous postwar boom.

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.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. 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. Read Or Download The Invention of Morel By Adolfo Bioy Casares Full Pages.