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Adolfo Bioy CasaresA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Why might this novella have had the impact and influence it’s had? What traces of it emerge in science fiction or magical realist works?
Analyze the food imagery in the text, including the editor’s footnotes. What do these images add to the text?
Compare and contrast this novella with H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. Where does Bioy Casares deviate from Wells? What themes do the texts share?
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