SOURCE: "Spatiality in the Novel: Theoretical and Formal Considerations in La invención de Morel," in La Chispa '83: Selected Proceedings, edited by Gilbert Paolini, Tulane University, 1983, pp. 255-62.

Suzanne Jill Levine on the Stylistic Aspects of Bioy Casares's Work:

Bioy's brief sentences reflect his tendency toward shorter, concise narrative forms (stories, novellas, and short novels). His style is terse and understated: his narrators tend to say little, inviting one to read ironic humor between the lines. Bioy's elliptical, matter-of-fact manner of communicating bewilderment makes the reader both laugh at and sympathize with these bunglers who do not quite have a grip on reality but are doing their best. Bioy could be considered a Kafka with a light touch, or a porteño (Buenos Aires) Woody Allen.

Suzanne Jill Levine, in her "Adolfo Bioy Casares," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 113, Gale Research, 1992.

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