
Últimas novelas / Final Novels
Novel , 2022
Alfaguara
Pages: 320
A compendium of the final novels written by Bioy Casares: The Adventure of a Photographer in La Plata (1985), An Odd Champion (1993) and From One World to Another (1998).
As soon as he arrives in La Plata, sent there to take photos for a new collection of books about cities, Nicolás Almanza meets the Lombardos, a family who treats him with excessive trust, but that attracts him in a way that completely disarms him. The adventure of the photographer in La Plata (1985), draws on Bioy’s renowned narrative virtuosity, shot through with strong doses of humour and terror. In An Odd Champion (1993) taxi driver Luis Ángel Morales loses his renowned shyness thanks his intoxication with a set of easy-going passengers, and almost unawares his fighting skills, so well suited to his trade, begin to live up to the two names he bears in homage to Firpo, the mythical Bull of the Pampas.
Conversely, the interplanetary expedition that journalist Javier Almagro and his girlfriend Margarita embark on in From One World to The Other (1998) make Bioy’s last novel the most unpredictable, incredible and perhaps most César Airean work that occupies a privileged place on the grand stage of Argentinian literature.