The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Book Review)
🍁 "I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness."
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🍁 The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
Rating - ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟
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It was my 2nd book of #bookishworldtour series and the country was Argentina. I had chosen to read Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths but I had failed miserably halfway in that book because it was not the right time for me to choose that book. Then this book came out at the recommendation, so I had decided to give this a read.
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🍁 According to Mexican Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, Bioy's fictions' principal themes are not cosmic but rather metaphysical. Argentine great Surrealist Borges prefaced the first edition, in 1940, of The Invention of Morel—Bioy Casares's most famous book and undoubtedly a twentieth-century classic—with an impassioned defense of fantastic literature. After H.G.Wells's 'The time Machine', Bioy's 'The Invention of Morel' is considered as an underrated classic of Sci-fi genre. This book is an amalgamation of Romance and Sci-fi genre, with metaphorical narrations and realisms.
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📖 This book explores a fugitive's quest towards understanding some visitor's hidden secrets and his love towards a visitor while stranding and hiding on a deserted Island. That Island has only four things: a museum, a chapel, a swimming pool and a mill. During his exploration he got to know about two visitor's identity, Faustine and Morel(who was a scientist), and eventually he fell in love with Faustine, but the visitors couldn't see him because of some phenomenon. As the story revolves around the visitors and that fugitive, Morel brought up the subject of immortality to those fellow visitors.
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🔹 Now who are they?
🔹 What are the motives of those visitors?
🔹 Which thing are they hiding in that museum from everyone?
🔹 Why couldn't the visitors be able to see that fugitive?
🔹 Are they real?
🔹 Can these all be that fugitive's hallucinations?
🔹 What that invention is all about and how that works?
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These questions will be stuck in your mind while reading and that in fugitive's mind too. This classic is a must read, it's merely has 100 pages. Hope you will love this book.
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