43 pages • 1 hour read
Adolfo Bioy CasaresThe Invention of Morel
Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1940A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
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Why might this novella have had the impact and influence it’s had? What traces of it emerge in science fiction or magical realist works?
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Analyze the food imagery in the text, including the editor’s footnotes. What do these images add to the text?
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Compare and contrast this novella with H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. Where does Bioy Casares deviate from Wells? What themes do the texts share?
