Una magia modesta / A Modest Magic
Short stories and novellas , 1997
Emecé
Pages: 168
The reader will have the chance to taste the quintessential capabilities of Bioy Casares, master of a prose that is able to, in its exquisite nakedness and ruthless irony, always leave a void of uneasiness in the reader. Therefore, for example, in Oblivion where a lover of the Latin poet’s life and work had to travel the far reaches of Europe to discover that uprooting is part of the human condition. In The Last Flat and A Tiger and its Master, the author unveils what’s behind the curtain that separates reality from dreams. Thus, story after story, he creates a subtle feeling of strangeness, through the thirty-nine tales which comprise A Modest Magic, whilst he weaves and unravels the destiny of banal existences at will, suddenly shaken by shadows, the absurd and a magic, that is in fact, not so modest.