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Title: La invención de Morel
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Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
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• Posted on 2008-12-17
  Nuevo mito sobre lo que ya es un viejo tema...
  
  Logra recrear un nuevo mito sobre lo que ya es un viejo tema: la deshumanización. Tiene mucho en común temáticamente con The Island of Dr. Moreau, en el sentido de que los carácteres no se convierten en monstruos sino fantamas proyectados por una máquina. El narrador se enamora de una de los fantasmas, confundiendo su propia falta de alma con el obejto de su deseo. Y se le pierde la humanidad.
  
  
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• Posted on 2008-12-04
  One of the classics of modern Latin American Fiction.
  
  A fugitive, persecuted by the Venezuelan authorities, escapes to a deserted and remote island. The island had construction done in 1924: a museum, a chapel, and a swimming pool. The structures are abandoned since, and the island is almost unapproachable due to numerous reefs that prevents boats to approach it.
  
  There is a legend that people who go there will be infected by a strange disease that kills you from the outside in: you lose your nails, your hair, your skin dies, your corneas fall, and the body will be dead in eight to fifteen days. With these legends, the fugitive feels it is the perfect place to hide.
  
  Helped by an Italian who sell rugs, the fugitive manages to reach the island in a small rowing boat.
  
  Soon he discovers that he is not alone on the island. There are other human beings coexisting on the island. The fugitive man spies on them, follows then around, and listens to their conversations.
  
  Soon it becomes clear that there is a mystery--the confines of reality vs. hallucination.
  
  He falls in love with Faustine, a beautiful young woman who likes to sun bathe near him. But as he gains the courage to interact with these characters, he realizes that they are not real. They've been created by Mr. Morell through a series of cameras and recording devices.
  
  As he tries to search for the source of the images, he discovers that they are more than images...
  
  With a perfect plot, mysticism, and originality of the issues in which the action takes place--this is one of the classics of modern Latin American Fiction.
  
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• Posted on 2008-10-30
  written by a reader
  
  The book was all written by the previous reader, and that difficulted my reading a lot.
  
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• Posted on 2001-10-03
  Morel
  
  Morel invento algo. Ese algo es fantástico. Tiene un poco de ver con todo, la vida eterna, el amor eterno, la felicidad eterna...
  Me pregunto si consigues descubrir que inventó Moriel antes de llegar a la mitad del libro.
  Un libro de ficción atrozmente sensacional.
  
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• Posted on 2000-10-14
  Una buena y entretenida novela de ficción
  
  My english is terrible, so give me the liberty to talk about this book in spanish:

  Hasta donde he podido leerlo es muy entretenido, presenta un dilema moral interesante y está muy bien narrado, aunque la narración sin capítulos me desconcertó en un principio. Todo esto, en las setenta páginas que he leído esta mañana en el tren. Me ha dado algo de interés por el desenlace, saber si Morel y sus amigos son fantasmás o qué así que me lo acabaré esta noche, seguro. Por otra parte, pienso que el tema daría para una novela más extensa y con más tintes sobrenaturales que probablemente me gustaría más. De todos modos, vaya un voto a favor de una brevedad interesante que parte de una idea muy original.
  

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