The main female character in this book was inspired by its author's love for the actress Louise Brooks.
The narrator of this book steals a copy of Belidor's Travaux, only to discover the exact same copy two weeks later. This book's narrator travels to its central locale with the help of an Italian rugseller in Calcutta named Dalmacio Ombrellieri. The main female character in this book was inspired by its author's love for the actress Louise Brooks. Its narrator is disturbed when two moons and two suns rise over the central location, and writes a diary which begins when a group of characters mysteriously appear. At the end of this book, the nameless narrator decides to subject himself to the title character's machine, which turns people into three-dimensional projections, in order to be with Faustine. Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges both called this book a perfect novel, and it begins with a political fugitive going to a strange Polynesian island, where he encounters an endlessly playing recording created by the title scientific genius. The basis for ? Alan Resnais's movie Last Year in Marienbad, for 10 points, name this book by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
The narrator of this book steals a copy of Belidor's Travaux, only to discover the exact same copy two weeks later.
The {Invention} of {Morel} [or {Morel's Invention} or La {invencion} de {Morel}]