De un mundo a otro / From One World to Another
Novel , 1998
Emecé
Pages: 85
To avoid leaving his astronaut girlfriend alone, Javier agrees to travel as a reporter on the first spaceship Argentina sends to space. But something goes wrong, and Margarita and Javier are ejected with parachutes. Upon landing, Javier thinks he is surrounded by a familiar landscape: "Am I in Palermo Woods?" he wonders. Stupefied, he discovers he has fallen on an unknown planet inhabited by strange birds with human-like behaviour. What was an adventurous romantic strategy transforms into an unusual situation with nightmarish overtones, making Javier a participant in intricate political conspiracies. To make matters worse, Margarita is nowhere to be found. Master of the fantasy genre, Adolfo Bioy Casares has written a dazzling short novel featuring some of his favourite themes: travel as a form of escape, the existence of parallel worlds, machines and inventions, man's powerlessness against fate, and the limits of love.