She is a professor in the Spanish Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Morels invention as inspiration for an integrative description of consciousness Adolfo Bioy Casares (19141999) was an Argentinian author, who was born and lived in Buenos Aires. Levine's most recent book is Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. Suzanne Jill Levine is the author of numerous studies in Latin American literature and the translator of works by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Manuel Puig, among other distinguished writers. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an Anthology of Fantastic Literature and a series of satirical sketches written under the pseudonym of H. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun (forthcoming from NYRB Classics). In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. He began to write in the early Thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents.
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