Posso Karl. - Adolfo Bioy Casares

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

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Rob Stone (Swansea University)

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Adolfo Bioy Casares

Borges, Fiction and Art

EDITED BY KARL POSSO

The Contributors, 2012

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Contents

Karl Posso

John King

Daniel Balderston

Michel Lafon

Stephen Henighan

Jordana Blejmar

Jess Rodero

Fiona J. Mackintosh

Karl Posso

Over recent decades the traditional languages and literatures model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and area studies approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.

In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.

I would like to thank Fiona J. Mackintosh with whom I began work on this project a few years ago in a congenial upper corner of the University of Edinburghs rather ascetic David Hume Tower. Our discussions and her enthusiasm proved invaluable, as did her ideas and outlines for parts of a forerunner to the present Introduction. I am particularly grateful to Ernesto Montequin for his assistance in selecting photographs from the estate of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Jean-Pierre Mourey, Hugo Santiago, Miguel de Torre Borges, Compaa de Teatro Eva Halac and Fundacin San Telmo also generously provided photographs and artwork and pledged their support for the volume. The ensemble of contributors owe thanks to more people than may be encompassed on this page.

Karl Posso

The picture section is placed between pages 112 and 113.

Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, 1942
Fundacin San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampos wedding, Pardo, 15 January 1940. Seated: Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares; standing: Jorge Luis Borges, Enrique Drago Mitre (Bioys friend), Oscar Pardo (foreman of estancia Rincn Viejo) Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges, Mar del Plata, c.1934
Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares

Panel 87 by Jean-Pierre Mourey, from Jean-Pierre Mourey and Adolfo Bioy Casares, LInvention de Morel dAdolfo Bioy Casares (2007, p. 101)
CASTERMAN S.A. Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Mourey

Panel 89 by Jean-Pierre Mourey, from Jean-Pierre Mourey and Adolfo Bioy Casares, LInvention de Morel dAdolfo Bioy Casares (2007, p. 103)
CASTERMAN S.A. Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Mourey

Sawyer (Josh Holloway) with The Invention of Morel, in Lost, Eggtown, episode 76 (2008). Photograph by Mario Perez Mario Perez/Disney ABC Television Group/Getty Images

La invencin de Morel puppets by Rubn Trifir, 1995
Compaa de Teatro Eva Halac, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adolfo Bioy Casares on El Gaucho at estancia Rincn Viejo, Pardo, Province of Buenos Aires, January 1921
Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Ayax, Alta Gracia, Crdoba, 1932
Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares

Biorges (Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares) by Gisle Freund, c.1942
Photo Gisle Freund/IMEC/Fonds MCC

Don Porfirio (Juan Carlos Paz) in Invasin (1969). Dir. Hugo Santiago. At 00:31:23
Courtesy of Hugo Santiago

Herrera (Lautaro Mura) and the invaders in Invasin (1969). Dir. Hugo Santiago. At 01:51:49
Courtesy of Hugo Santiago

Faustine by Norah Borges de Torre, 1940. Originally in Adolfo Bioy Casares, La invencin de Morel (Buenos Aires: Losada, 1940)
Courtesy of Miguel de Torre Borges

Silvina Ocampo. Photograph by Daniel Merle, c.1986
Heirs of Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares

Butterflies on Bioys windowsill. Photograph by Adolfo Bioy Casares, c.1980