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Adolfo Bioy Casares: la ficción biopolítica

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ABSTRACTMost academic works on Adolfo Bioy Casares can be put into two categories: those that stress Bioy Casares's political ideas and those that emphasize his mastery of the fantastic genre as if he were two different writers at once. Can we read a politics of the fantastic in his works? Beyond the Peronist polemics in which Casares's books are framed, if we take into consideration the existential logic that runs through his novels—always in the boundaries between life and death, dream and reality, body and spirit, etc.—we note an exploration of the body and living, of the human and the animal. This exploration is informed by scientific laws that progressively invade the spheres of subjectivity, citizenship, and politics in his works, beginning in particular with El sueno de los heroes (1954), which leaps from the technical imagination to the biopolitical paradigm that will appear fictionalized in Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969) and Dormir al sol (1973).