Adolfo Bioy Casares

For the first time, a single volume brings together all the work of the literary partnership formed by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Apart from having gone down in history as two of the foremost figures of Argentine literature, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares were close friends for fifty years. Among other interests they were united by their admiration for the detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and G. K. Chesterton. 

They began working as a team by chance, when they were commissioned to write a promotional brochure for a yogurt that neither of them took very seriously. However, they discovered a new, different writer with a voice of his own, who emerged as if by magic from the union of their two talents. 

This is how the unforgettable Honorio Bustos Domecq and Benito Suárez Lynch were conceived, pseudonyms under which Borges and Bioy published a series of delightful detective stories over more than three decades, written in the best tradition of the classics but loaded with explosive satirical gunpowder.