Elena Garro, Adolfo Bioy Casares
A love story. There are many, certainly, and each has its own peculiarities.
A love story. There are many, certainly, and each has its own peculiarities. The one told in this book is truly remarkable because of its participants: Elena Garro and Adolfo Bioy Casares, two great writers, one Mexican and the other Argentine. Added to this, in the background of the writing, is the shadow of another great writer, Octavio Paz. She was the author of an exceptional body of narrative work, with a turbulent biography, at times dark and at times luminous. He was a great novelist, always somewhat overshadowed by Jorge Luis Borges, his mentor and close friend; a charming, elegant, and very wealthy man known for his numerous romantic affairs. She was no less beautiful and was always in need of attention. Their correspondence brings to mind the great collections of letters in history... Abelard and Heloise, the Portuguese Nun, the Letters to Clementina... books that we now read as novels. Why not do the same with the texts the reader holds in hand? Elena preserved Bioy's letters. She wrote poems to him, and he seems, indeed, to have been a man in love. Reader, you hold in your hands an extraordinary love story that seems to have been told by a maker of dreams, or perhaps, one senses, of nightmares. It is intense writing that captivates, fascinates, and intrigues us
