Historias fantásticas / Fantastic Stories
Short stories and novellas , 1972
Debolsillo
Following his masterpiece The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares once again leads his characters across the thin line between the everyday and the fantastic. Whether set in a remote estate deep in Argentina, a sports club in Buenos Aires, a cruise ship, a Swiss hotel, or an African restaurant, these eleven short stories take the reader—through the most varied situations, whether romantic, distressing, tragicomic, or baroque—to that fragile frontier between the known and the unknown. This delicate balance defines all of Bioy Casares’s work.
The volume includes stories selected from El gran Serafín, La trama celeste, Historia prodigiosa, El héroe de las mujeres, Guirnalda con amores, and El lado de la sombra.