Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with
normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along
with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger
problem: his wife is a dog. At first, it doesn't seem like such a
problem, because the German shepherd inhabiting his wife's body is
actually a good deal more agreeable than his wife herself, now
occupying the body of the same German shepherd in a mental hospital
run by scientists who, it appears, have designs on the whole
neighborhood. But then Lucio has a sense, however confused, of
what's right, which is an even bigger problem yet.
"Asleep in the Sun" is the great work of the Argentine master
Adolfo Bioy Casares's later years. Like his legendary "Invention of
Morel," it is an intoxicating mixture of fantasy, sly humor, and
menace. Whether read as a fable of modern politics, a meditation on
the elusive parameters of the self, or a most unusual love story,
Bioy's book is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a
pure delight.
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