El héroe de las mujeres

El héroe de las mujeres / The Women’s Hero

Short stories and novellas , 1978

Alfaguara

Pages: 190

A peaceful ambience, a couple of lovers and a threat which unexpectedly looms over them: just like a medieval magician, Adolfo Bioy Casares creates out of these elements a theatre of prodigies that keeps readers on the edge of their seats until the end of the show. His linguistic skills adjust the narrative tone to the changing characters in each story. In A door opens a doctor on the Avenida de Mayo offers his patients an infallible method to cure their amorous troubles, in Another Hope a town mayor negotiates the transformation of human suffering into electrical energy, in In the Shape of The World an inhabitant of El Tigre smuggles goods from an added dimension of outer space… The volume concludes with the story that gives it its title, a magical creole fantasy haunted by the terrible ghost of Facundo Quiroga. Inventiveness, adroit style, and humour, all of Bioy’s narrative qualities shine in The Women’s Hero.