num_pages: 103
description: Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.Inspired by Bioy Casares’s fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction’s now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Last Year at Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.
language: English
title: The Invention of Morel
titlecomplete: The Invention of Morel
characters: Dalmacio Ombrellieri, Dora, El fugitivo, La mujer vieja, Morel, Faustine, Stoever, Haynes, Irene Neuenschwander
genres: Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Novella, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 23451
awards: name: Premio Especial Ricardo Rojas
publisher: New York Review Books