SOURCE: "Stories from Three Worlds," in The New York Times Book Review, November 15, 1964, pp. 62-3.

An American theater critic, Frankel has worked for the Saturday Evening Post, National Observer, and the New York Times. He is also a screenwriter and has collaborated on books with such noted entertainers as Uta Hagen and Milton Berle. In the following excerpt, he describes the short fiction in The Invention of Morel, and Other Stories as imaginative though hindered by reliance on a single narrative technique.

[The Invention of Morel, and Other Stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares contains] the novella, The Invention of Morel (which won the 1941 Primer Premio Municipal Award in Buenos Aires) and … six short stories originally collected in a volume entitled La Trama Celeste. Here is an interesting mind at work, a mind involved with science, philosophy and psychology. His stories are adventures, albeit slow moving, in which time...