Invention of Morel Review

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing The Invention of Morel for Boldtype magazine.

Some books are so incredibly easy to write reviews of. Books like Morel unleash thousand-word torrents of commentary in my mind, and the hardest part is whittling down what I want to say to what will fit in the space of a review. Morel makes things even easier because it comes with the most obvious hook in the world: Adolfo Bioy Casares is (scandalously) little-known here even though he has about the strongest Borges connection possible in literature.

I think I've mentioned Morel before on this blog, but this bears repeating: read this book. Please, read this book. It's one of the great detective fictions of the 20th century, and, despite its short 100 pages, you will be interpreting this book all night long. And you will probably read it again, if not to figure out what the hell is going on then at least to vainly attempt to recreate the experience of reading it for the first time.

Comments

[Jon]

I've loved this one for a long time... always great to see it getting attention.

Keep up the good work.