Adolfo Bioy Casares

Немолодой уже доктор Энрике Уберман приезжает в уединенный старый отель на побережье, чтобы подавить чувства к прекрасной девушке. По иронии судьбы или преднамеренно, девушка оказывается там же. Эта красотка способна правоцировать мужчин на самые отчаянные поступки…

Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.

In an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.

About Dr. Morel who invents a machine to duplicate the woman he loved, Faustina, in virtual reality. A tale dealing with the impossibility of ever knowing for certain which parts of ourselves and our relationship with others exist only in our imagination.

A group of peoples decide to go to relax to a hotel near the sea. He hotel's owner is an enigmatic woman who lives with her distant daughter, a young pianist and a naive waitress. When the media inform about the end of the world only reaction the waitress and one of the guests.

A writer loses his beloved, in the hands of another man, wihtout having expressed his feelings to her.

The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.

A man who is entering old age facing a society in which young people removed the old.

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.

Попав в шторм, беглец из тюрьмы случайно оказывается на острове. Остров необитаем. Но однажды он видит на высоких скалах силуэты мужчины и женщины, одетых старомодно и кажущихся приятно проводящими отпуск. Следя за ними, он узнаёт, что молодую женщину зовут Фаустина. Складывается впечатление, что Фаустина видит его, но не подаёт вида. Он убеждён, что должен помочь, поэтому пытается поговорить с ней наедине.

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.