Plan de evasión ( 1945 trans Suzanne Jill Levine as A Plan for Escape 1975) had close thematic links with the earlier novel, exposing a similar protagonist to the dislocations of a metaphysical Island. The story was filmed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson as El Crimen de Oribe ( 1950), and features a house whose occupants are caught in a Time Loop. The protagonist soon discovers that the inhabitants are three-dimensional projections or Avatars (see also Virtual Reality) created and operated by a mysterious Machine which resembles a surreal film projector (see Cinema) in this pantomime of a futuristic entre-deux-guerres, he continues to search for Immortality, a search mediated (and vitiated) by the Godgame manipulations of his host, Morel, who may in fact be the protagonist himself, imprisoned on the island because his Invention kills its human models in order to create chimerical copies (see Crime and Punishment) the tale was directly filmed in Italy as L'Invenzione di Morel ( 1974) directed by Emidio Greco Simms's translation also includes several tales of the fantastic from La trama celeste (coll 1948), which includes 'El perjurio de la nieve' (1944 Sur trans Ruth I C Simms as The Perjury of the Snow 1964 chap). La invención de Morel ( 1940 trans Ruth I C Simms in The Invention of Morel and Other Stories from 'La trama celeste' coll 1964), tells in this fashion of its unnamed protagonist's immurement on an Island whose inhabitants seem themselves immured in an eternal resort, and for whom he is invisible (see Invisibility) The Invention of Morel was the unacknowledged inspiration for Alain Resnais's film Last Year at Marienbad ( 1961). (1914-1999) Argentine author, married 1940-1993 to the author and anthologist Silvina Ocampo he was noted from his first book, Prólogo (coll 1929), for the surreal displacements of his work, which uses sf or detective forms in an abstract, parodic fashion (see Parody), and is generally metaphysical in intent.

Borges by Adolfo Bioy Casares