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The Invention of Morel (1964)
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A fugitive watches visitors on an island behave with a strange indifference to his presence. Adolfo Bioy Casares turns that small mystery into a precise enquiry into images, desire and what counts as a life. Go in knowing little: its short form lets each repeated detail acquire a different meaning. Ruth L. C. Simms's translation, NYRB edition: 120 pages. Also available in a newer translation as Morel's Invention.
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A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart. - Wikipedia