43 pages 1 hour read

Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Invention of Morel

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1940

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Essay Topics

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Why might this novella have had the impact and influence it’s had? What traces of it emerge in science fiction or magical realist works?

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Analyze the food imagery in the text, including the editor’s footnotes. What do these images add to the text?

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Compare and contrast this novella with H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. Where does Bioy Casares deviate from Wells? What themes do the texts share?