Books by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L. C. Simms
“A number of writers, including Borges and other luminaries of Latin American literature, have described this as a perfect novel. And there is something perfect in its plotting. As I mentioned before, it plays an amazing trick on you. It puts you in an odd situation in which you think you’re reading something like Kafka, where you shouldn’t expect any kind of systematic explanation. And then it miraculously delivers one, which makes a bizarre sense of everything that’s come before.” Read more...
The Best Metaphysical Thrillers
Greg Jackson, Novelist
Interviews where books by Adolfo Bioy Casares were recommended
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The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L. C. Simms -
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver -
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Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Rotenberg -
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The Intuitionist
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The Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Best Metaphysical Thrillers, recommended by Greg Jackson
The Best Metaphysical Thrillers, recommended by Greg Jackson
Metaphysical literature calls into question the very nature of reality, says the acclaimed US novelist Greg Jackson: it dramatises “the liquid mysteries of thought, pattern, and form.” Here, he highlights five ‘metaphysical thrillers’—artfully written novels powered by intrigue, which explore or embody philosophical dilemmas.
