Adolfo Bioy Casares

A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart. - Wikipedia

Contains: Nathaniel Hawthorne. LA MUERTE REPETIDA ........... ....... Edgard Allan Poe. LA CARTA ROBADA Robert Louis Stevenson. LA PUERTA Y EL PINO Arthur Conan Doyle. [LA LIGA DE LOS CABEZAS ROJAS]( Jack London. LAS MUERTES CONCENTRICAS....................... Guillaume Apollinaire. EL MARINERO DE AMSTERDAM .... Gilbert K. Chesterton. EL HONOR DE ISRAEL Gow.......... Eden Phillpotts. EL ANANÅ DE HIERRO ........................... .. Ryunosuke Akutagawa. EN EL Anthony Berkeley. EL ENVENENADOR DE SIR WILLIAM ... Milkward Kennedy. El. FIN DE UN JUEZ Ellery Queen. FILATELIA....... Georges Simenon. LA NOCHE DE I-os SIETE MINUTOS .. Jorge Luis Borges. LA MUERTE Y LA Manuel Peyrou. LA ESPADA DORMIDA ... Silvina Ocampo. EL Adolfo Luis Pérez Zelaschi. LAS SENALES......

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.

"In seaside Bosque de Mar, Argentina, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortun--the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr. Humberto Huberman. When quiet, young translator Mary is found dead on the first night of Huberman's stay, he quickly appoints himself leader of an inquiry that will see blame apportioned in turn to each and every guest--including Mary's own sister--and culminating in a wild, wind-blown reconnaissance mission to the nearby shipwreck, the Joseph K"--P. of cover.

"Antología de expresiones y comentarios del habla popular que se relaciona con los estilos de las novelas del autor. Con gran sentido del humor comenta sobre los registros orales de las distintas clases sociales. Indispensable para los estudiosos de la obra de Bioy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]( / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.

Hombre de la esquina rosada / Jorge Luis Borges -- Los fugitivos / Alejo Carpentier -- La autopista del sur / Julio Cortázar -- Nos han dado la tierra / Juan Rulfo -- Recuerdo de las sierras / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- En este pueblo no hay ladrones / Gabriel García Márquez.

Una antología de historias escritas por autores argentinos que toman como fuente de inspiración el cine y su mundo.