Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 - March 18, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer.

Works

Novels

• La invención de Morel (1940, translated into English as The Invention of Morel, ISBN 1590170571)
• Plan de evasión (1945, translated into English as A Plan for Escape, ISBN 1555971075)
• El sueño de los héroes (1954, translated into English as Dream of Heroes, ISBN 0704326345)
• Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969, translated into English as Diary of the War of the Pig, ISBN 0070737428)
• Dormir al Sol (1973, translated into English 1978 as Asleep in the Sun, ISBN 0892550309)
• La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata (1985, translated into English as The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, ISBN 0747507988)
• Un campeón desparejo (A Fragile Champion, 1993)

Books of Stories

• Prólogo (Prologue, 1929)
• 17 disparos contra el porvenir (17 Shots Against the Future, 1933)
• La estatua casera (The Household Statue, 1936)
• La trama celeste (The Celestial Plot, 1948)
• Luis Greve, muerto (Luis Greve, Deceased, 1937)
• Las vísperas de Fausto (Faust's Eve, 1949)
• Historia prodigiosa (A Remarkable History, 1956)
• Guirnalda con amores (Guirnalda with Loves1959)
• El lado de la sombra (The Shady Side, 1962)
• El gran serafín (The Great Seraph, 1967)
• El héroe de las mujeres (The Hero and the Women, 1978)
• Historias desaforadas (Colossal Stories, 1986)

Generally, these Spanish-language collections have not been systematically translated into English. English language collections include:

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• The Russian Doll and Other Stories (ISBN 0811212114)
• Selected Stories (ISBN 0811212750)

Letters

• En viaje (Travelling, 1996), letters to Silvina

Works in collaboration

With Jorge Luis Borges

• Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942, translated into English as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, ISBN 0525480358)
• Dos fantasías memorables (Two Memorable Fantasies, 1946)
• Un modelo para la muerte (A Model for Death, 1946)
• Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (1967, translated into English as Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, ISBN 0525475486)
• Libro del cielo y del infierno, (The Book of Heaven and Hell, 1960)
• Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (New Stories by Bustos Domecq, 1977)

Dos fantasías memorables and Un modelo para la muerte were originally published in private printings of only 300 copies. The first commercial printings were in 1970.

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With Silvina Ocampo

• Los que aman, nunca odian (Those Who Love, Never Hate, 1946)

Screenplays

With Jorge Luis Borges

• Los Orilleros (1955, The Hoodlums)
• El Paraíso de los Creyentes (1955, The Paradise of the Believers)
• Invasión (1969, Invasion)