Dispositivi della visione e falsificazione del reale  ne <i>La invención de Morel</i> di Adolfo Bioy Casares

Luigi Marfè

doi:10.13125/2039-6597/3358

Luigi Marfè University of Padova

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/3358

Keywords: Bioy Casares, Screens, Morel, Invention, Images

Abstract

The essay focuses on the relationship between images, desire and reality in La invención de Morel (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares. The novel prefigures the evolution of contemporary society, where images proliferate outside the screens, transforming the whole reality into a virtual, widespread screen: the fictive penetrates into the real and the real into the fictive, to the point that defining borders among them become impossible. Far from being mere forms of representation, images become man’s rivals: they can seduce human beings, replace them, and even kill them. In Bioy’s novel, images are the ambiguous “simulacra”—in Jean Baudrillard’s terms—of a disrupting “dissimulation of reality”.

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Luigi Marfè, University of Padova

Luigi Marfè is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Padova. His research interests include travel writing, visual culture and translation studies. He is the author of three monographs: Oltre la fine dei viaggi (Olschki 2009), Introduzione alle teorie narrative (ArchetipoLibri 2011), «In English Clothes». La novella italiana in Inghilterra: politica e poetica della traduzione (Accademia UP 2015). He also wrote essays for many international journals (Compar(a)ison, Arcadia, Studies in Travel Writing, Hybris) and translated books into Italian from English (W. Shakespeare, Tito Andronico, Bompiani 2014), French (N. Bouvier, Il doppio sguardo, ETS 2012) and Spanish (A. Giménez Hutton, Chatwin in Patagonia, Nutrimenti 2015). He is the journal manager of the international, peer-reviewed academic journal Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism (2281-6658).

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Vision and Falsification of Reality in The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

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