![]() They and Borges shared a delight in the fantastic perhaps because, as the Argentine writer Manuel Puig has speculated, there is so little mystery on the flat pampas, and so little history in Argentine towns, that the writer is forced into fantasy as a means of escape. Silvina encouraged Casares to devote himself to literature, and collaborated on books with him. ![]() The Ocampo sisters brought all that was new in the literary world outside Argentina to Buenos Aires's smart set, especially through the magazine, Sur. Silvina Ocampo, 12 years his senior, was the sister of the literary patron Victoria Ocampo. They also wrote detective fiction together both admired the narrative structures of the genre although they did not take the enterprise entirely seriously, as can be seen from one of their most successful efforts, Seis Problemas Para Don Isidro Parodi (Six Problems For Don Isidro Parodi), in which the detective solves the riddles while locked up in jail.Īt about the same time as he met Borges, Casares also encountered the woman who became his wife of more than 50 years. For a while they ran a small magazine, Destiempo. ![]() ![]() The two immediately became great friends, and started to collaborate not only with advertising copy, but also in literary endeavours. Then in 1932 he met Borges, already an established writer. ![]()
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