Guirnalda con amores

by Adolfo Bioy Casares

En Guirnalda con amores las viejas heridas de la condición humana son tamizadas por Bioy Casares a través del cuento, del aforismo o la fábula en un vaivén tan entretenido como implacable. Este libro de misceláneas nos permite conocer al Bioy Casares testigo de su clase y su época. Definido por el propio Bioy como una "despreocupada miscelánea", Guirnalda con amores consta de once secciones que alternan relatos de alto vuelo plagados de escenarios mediterráneos, hoteles e infidelidades de todo tipo que, aun cuando salen a la luz, nunca son lo que se esperan con una serie de aforismos entre filosóficos y cotidianos que se leen con la voracidad de un TikTok literario. Un inesperado poema final, tan porteño como cada una de esas calles que se van nombrando en plena marcha, corona el que tal vez sea el libro más original y sorprendente de Adolfo Bioy Casares.

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. 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. 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. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an Anthology of Fantastic Literature and a series of satirical sketches written under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq.

Reviews

[Paulabp · Rating 4 out of 5]

“En el amor, en la cárcel o en el hospital recordemos que ahí afuera hay otros mundos”

[Ariel Alonso · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantástico Bioy, como siempre.