“The War Diary with Pigs” (1969) became one of the last books by the famous Argentine writer, friend and co-author of X. L. Borges—Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999).
This novel, a kind of Argentine “Autumn of the Patriarch,” tells (as, in fact, almost all of Casares’s books do) about Buenos Aires—but this is a special Buenos Aires: not an enigmatic universe and not a sanctuary of strange dreams, but a bizarre and frightening labyrinth of nightmares, where once you enter you risk everything—especially if you’re already over thirty.