A Russian Doll and Other Stories
By: Adolfo Bioy Casares ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine.
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Bioy Casares, Adolfo -- Translations into English; Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: A Russian Doll and Other Stories, published in Spanish in 1991 as Una muneca rusa, is the ninth collection of short fiction by one of this century's premier Argentinian writers who, with his fellow countrymen Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped change the world's perception of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares' narratives are elegant and urbane, his style precise and streamlined, as he paces his characters through seriocomic traps of fate - ensnared by.

Love, impelled by lust, ambition, or plain greed, even metamorphosed by pharmaceuticals. These are not stories in a psychological mode but like the image of the Russian doll of the title piece are carefully wrought congeries of intractable selves within selves.