![]() ![]() ![]() The music and the shouting woke me up a few hours later. When I was finally able to sleep, it was very late. ![]() One day his peace is disturbed by the sudden appearance of a crowd of people – it is almost as if they have come out of nowhere. When we join the story, the narrator has been on the island for a few months, typically taking shelter in a museum, one of two buildings constructed by the previous inhabitants. Nevertheless, the narrator is prepared to take his chances it’s either that or run the risk of recapture by the police. It is said that the island is home to a mysterious, fatal disease, one that attacks the human body from outside in. ![]() The story centres on the fate of an unnamed narrator, a fugitive who is hiding out on a supposedly uninhabited island in the middle of nowhere in the hope of evading the authorities following his conviction for a serious crime. It’s an intriguing story, one that keeps the reader guessing until certain revelations come to light. While I didn’t love Morel as much as the Casares-Ocampo co-production, I did enjoy it. It’s an early novel by the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose joint novella with his wife, Silvina Ocampo, Where There’s Love, There’s Hate – a thoroughly entertaining take on the traditional detective story – made my end-of-year highlights in 2014. The Invention of Morel (first published in 1940), was one such book. When I put together my list for the Classics Club back in December 2015, I included a few translations just to mix things up a bit. ![]()
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