SOURCE: "Jewels of a Million Truths," in Américas, Vol. 44, No. 6, November-December, 1992, pp. 60-1.

An American educator, critic, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, and short story writer, Mujica is a specialist in the field of Hispanic studies. In the review below, she offers a favorable assessment of A Russian Doll, describing the collection as "vintage Bioy Casares."

In the world of Bioy Casares people are unique yet duplicable, the line between individuals and even species is blurry, and God appears in the most unexpected places. Originally published in Spanish in 1991 as Una muñeca rusa, this new collection of seven stories [A Russian Doll and Other Stories] is vintage Bioy Casares: the fantastic goes hand-in-hand with the mundane and the dead serious with the deadpan.

Like much of Bioy Casares' fiction, many of the stories in A Russian Doll involve travel, for it is the author's belief that travel...