Abstract
La invención de Morel reflect on how the use of technologies could be fascinating and dangerous at the same time; and the way the island seems to be a space of freedom while it is actually a place of prison and death. La invención de Morel presents a utopian situation that transforms into a dystopia. Characters, especially the narrator, project their desires along with the holograms, but they are deceived without realizing about their loss of reality. The novel uses phantasy and science fiction resources to reflect about the way humans self-imprison. This is studied by analogy to the effects of technologies in today's society. In this sense, the novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares is about a menace due to the human preference of imaginary life over real one.
Highlights
La invención de Morel is a novel that has aroused a lively critical interest because the text has a metafictional nature asking the reader for a critical assessment of the literary artifice (Tamargo, 1976)
Adolfo Bioy Casares takes this genre to the self-awareness of literary creation
It is part of an iconic moment regarding the fantastic in literature written in Spanish. It is an example of science fiction literature that anticipates the fascination with technology that is so important today
Summary
La invención de Morel is a novel that has aroused a lively critical interest because the text has a metafictional nature asking the reader for a critical assessment of the literary artifice (Tamargo, 1976). It presents the story on an island as a propitious space for a utopia that pushes human desire to the limits All these aspects are interesting and can serve to structure Bioy Casares's work in form and content, but the way in which this text critiques the illusion generated by the World of Spectacle has not been studied. The narrator discovers that Morel is a scientist that has built a machine to record the lives of his friends on that island, that is, to reproduce their holograms forever. Both Morel and the narrator fall in love with Faustine, a mysterious woman who is part of the group of tourists.
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