A Friday Who Was Called Dos: Adolfo Bioy Casares and the Literary Tradition in the English Language
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Adolfo Bioy Casares, literary tradition, novels in English, Argentine novel, Argentine short storyAbstract
This article situates the novels La invención de Morel and Plan de evasión and the short story “Un perro que se llamaba Dos” (1967), all by Argentine author Adolfo Bioy Casares, in relation to the rise of the English prose narrative and the novel in the UK and the US. From their beginnings, short stories, novellas, and novels register sociocultural changes engendered by puritanism, individualism, and capitalism. This article references Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, and H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau in establishing a context for an analysis of the form and content of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s narrative.
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