A Russian Doll and Other Stories is the ninth collection of short fiction by one of this century's premier Argentinian writers who, with his fellow countrymen Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped change the world's perception of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares's narratives are elegant and urbane, his style precise and streamlined, as he paces his characters through seriocomic traps of fate--ensnared by love, impelled by lust, ambition, or plain greed, even metamorphosed by pharmaceuticals. These are not stories in a psychological mode but like the image of the Russian doll of the title piece are carefully wrought congeries of intractable selves within selves.
- ISBN10 0811212122
- ISBN13 9780811212120
- Publish Date 2 October 1992 (first published 17 September 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Paperback
- Language English