Set in Paraguay, this offspring of a fantastic imagination is an achievement of realism with curiously surrealist overtones.  "I don't think it would be an imprecision or a hyperbole to qualify it as perfect." — Jorge Luis Borges Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) is best known for his novella, La Invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel) . He won the Gran Premio de Honor da Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, the Cervantes Award, and the Légion d’Honneur da França. He also worked as a journalist and translator. He was a colleague and collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he wrote six books.