The quotation from Borges is part of the preface he wrote to Morel's Invention. The first epigraph belongs to Cortázar, who writes about his wish to be Bioy Casares as he starts writing a story that he would like to tell with the kind of detachment and precision he admires in Bioy Casares's work. I believe I am free of every superstition of modernity, of any illusion that yesterday differs intimately from today or will differ from tomorrow but I maintain that during no other era have there been novels with such admirable plots as The Turn of the Screw, Der Prozess, Le Voyageur sur la Terre, and the one you are about to read, which was written in Buenos Aires by Adolfo Bioy Casares. Sometimes, when I can't do anything but begin a story the way I would like to begin this one, precisely when I would like to be Adolfo Bioy Casares. A Poetics of Misencounters: Adolfo Bioy Casares
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