La invención de Morel

A mysterious building built on an island in 1924, a diary written by a closeted fugitive who falls in love with an impassive woman, and a commentator who disavows him in various footnotes. For most readers -and how difficult it would be to deny them-, Morel's invention is the masterpiece of Adolfo Bioy Casares, a novel with such powerful philosophical components that it came to influence, especially through Lost, the universe still in vogue of the series. A plot with apparitions so ahead of its time that its reading is capable of resignifying even traumatic episodes in the history of Argentina that, at the time of its publication, could not even be suspected.