The Dreams of Heroes
At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his life. The problem is that Gauna can only dimly remember what happened: he was out on the town with his raucous, reckless friends when a masked woman appeared. Several hours later, gasping and horrified, Gauna awoke at the edge of a lake. Three years later, he tries to solve the mystery the only way he knows: by re-creating the same situation and reliving it- despite the warnings of his secret protector, the Sorcerer. In The Dreams of Heroes, Adolfo Bioy Casares assembles magicians, prophetic and brave women, shamefully self-conscious men and Buenos Aires under the rubric of a sinister and mocking fate, and thrusts them forward into the dizzying realm of memory, doom and cyclical time. Written in 1954 and never before published in America, The Dream of Heroes stands as a predecessor of and model for a whole school of European and American novels that followed but never quite matched it.
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The Dreams of Heroes
At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his life. The problem is that Gauna can only dimly remember what happened: he was out on the town with his raucous, reckless friends when a masked woman appeared. Several hours later, gasping and horrified, Gauna awoke at the edge of a lake. Three years later, he tries to solve the mystery the only way he knows: by re-creating the same situation and reliving it- despite the warnings of his secret protector, the Sorcerer. In The Dreams of Heroes, Adolfo Bioy Casares assembles magicians, prophetic and brave women, shamefully self-conscious men and Buenos Aires under the rubric of a sinister and mocking fate, and thrusts them forward into the dizzying realm of memory, doom and cyclical time. Written in 1954 and never before published in America, The Dream of Heroes stands as a predecessor of and model for a whole school of European and American novels that followed but never quite matched it.
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Overview

At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his life. The problem is that Gauna can only dimly remember what happened: he was out on the town with his raucous, reckless friends when a masked woman appeared. Several hours later, gasping and horrified, Gauna awoke at the edge of a lake. Three years later, he tries to solve the mystery the only way he knows: by re-creating the same situation and reliving it- despite the warnings of his secret protector, the Sorcerer. In The Dreams of Heroes, Adolfo Bioy Casares assembles magicians, prophetic and brave women, shamefully self-conscious men and Buenos Aires under the rubric of a sinister and mocking fate, and thrusts them forward into the dizzying realm of memory, doom and cyclical time. Written in 1954 and never before published in America, The Dream of Heroes stands as a predecessor of and model for a whole school of European and American novels that followed but never quite matched it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789601667225
Publisher: S. Patakis
Publication date: 07/20/2023
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 328
File size: 984 KB
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

Ο Αργεντινός συγγραφέας Αδόλφο Μπιόυ Κασάρες (1914-1999) γεννήθηκε και πέθανε στο Μπουένος Άιρες. Έγραψε τα μυθιστορήματα Η εφεύρεση του Μορέλ (1940, Εκδόσεις Πατάκη 2006, σε μετάφραση Αύγουστου Κορτώ), Σχέδιο διαφυγής (1945, Εκδόσεις Πατάκη 2006, σε μετάφραση Παύλου Μάτεσι), Το όνειρο των ηρώων (1954, Εκδόσεις Πατάκη 2023, σε μετάφραση Νίκου Πρατσίνη) κ.ά., και τα διηγήματα Η ουράνια πλεκτάνη (1948), Θαυμαστή ιστορία (1956), Ο ήρωας των γυναικών (1978), Βίαιες ιστορίες (1986) κ.ά. Με τον στενό του φίλο Χόρχε Λουίς Μπόρχες συνυπέγραψαν —είτε με τα πραγματικά τους ονόματα είτε με πομπώδη ψευδώνυμα, προϊόντα παιγνιωδών συνδυασμών προγονικών τους επωνύμων (Ονόριο Μπούστος Ντομέκ, Μπ. Σουάρες Λιντς)— σενάρια, ανθολογίες, αστυνομικές ιστορίες και σπαρταριστές σάτιρες του μοντερνισμού. Δύο χρόνια μετά τον θάνατο της αγαπημένης του συντρόφου, της Αργεντινής συγγραφέα Σιλβίνα Οκάμπο, κυκλοφόρησε η πολύχρονη αλληλογραφία τους, ένα εντυπωσιακό «φρέσκο» του πνευματικού Μπουένος Άιρες (Ταξιδεύοντας, 1996). Ο Κασάρες τιμήθηκε το 1975 με το Ανώτατο Βραβείο της Εταιρείας Αργεντινών Συγγραφέων (SADE), το 1981 με το παράσημο της Γαλλικής Λεγεώνας της Τιμής και το 1991 με το Βραβείο Μιγκέλ ντε Θερβάντες.
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