Bioy Casares (The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, 1989,
The Dream of Heroes, 1988, etc.) - once a collaborator with his
fellow Argentine Borges - is a gently funny writer who in his short
stories gives play to an entertaining surrealism and talent for
disexpectation. He has an unerring talent for genre, too: the
travel diary ("Our Trip [A Diary]" - in which the whimsy comes more
from a cast of different imaginary female companions than from the
sights seen) or the shaggy-dog-story-form (the title story, or "A
Meeting in Rauch," or "Underwater" - in which great surprises are
in store for a traveller who finds himself operating in someone
else's fantastic context) or the simple anecdote ("Regarding A
Smell"). Continually inventive throughout - though occasionally a
little overblown and toying - and therefore the cumulative effect
of this quite small book is very pleasant. (Kirkus Reviews)
A Russian Doll and Other Stories, published in Spanish in 1991 as
Una muneca rusa, is the ninth collection of short fiction by one of
this century's premier Argentinian writers who, with his fellow
countrymen Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped change the
world's perception of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares'
narratives are elegant and urbane, his style precise and
streamlined, as he paces his characters through seriocomic traps of
fate - ensnared by love, impelled by lust, ambition, or plain
greed, even metamorphosed by pharmaceuticals. These are not stories
in a psychological mode but like the image of the Russian doll of
the title piece are carefully wrought congeries of intractable
selves within selves.
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