SOURCE: "No Escaping Evasion," in Review, No. 15, Fall, 1975, pp. 50-4.

Adams is an American educator and author. In the essay below, he analyzes Bioy Casares's deliberate use of ambiguity and unresolved mystery in A Plan for Escape.

Adolfo Bioy Casares has been known in this country chiefly as a friend and associate of Jorge Luis Borges; and while his independent reputation is increasing rapidly in South America (with the accrual of prizes, the adaptation of his books to film and other marks of reputation) in America the publication of A Plan for Escape seems likely to strengthen the impression of a Borges-affinity. So far as my limited bibliographical resources will serve, this is the third volume [as of Fall 1975] of Bioy to appear in English. The chief previous work was a novel, Diary of the War of the Pig; another volume goes under the title of the...