ONGOING
My indecisiveness rears its ugly head yet again. Since writing the previous post, I've changed my mind regarding the subject of my final essay. It was set to be on Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (1963), but, partly inspired by my recent revisiting of Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961), I've decided to take on Adolfo Bioy Casares' 1940 novella La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel is the English title) instead. I'll still finish reading Rayuela and probably post something about it along the way (the book's length sort of lends itself to that). For now I haven't got much else to say, so I'll just direct you to the worthy introduction [PDF] by Suzanne Jill Levine from the 2003 New York Review of Books edition. And here is an essay from Senses of Cinema written by Thomas Beltzer on the possible connection between La invención de Morel and Last Year at Marienbad. Oh, and given that I just discovered Louise Brooks' work not long ago, I find it really interesting that Bioy Casares based one of the characters of his novella on her. (And I commend the NYRB for choosing an image of her for their cover.) Not that I blame him; she's really something.
