The invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares

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 Cortzar,
Gabriel Garca Mrquez, 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 in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.