Considered by many to be one of the first Latin American masters of the short story, Horacio Quiroga is author of some 200 pieces of fiction often compared to that of Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, and Edgar Allan Poe. Among this collection of tales selected by the author himself are stories of sickness, family tragedy, personal despair, and geographical exile, and also the frequent brutality of man.
Considered by many to be one of the first Latin American masters of the short story, Horacio Quiroga is author of some 200 pieces of fiction often com...
Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Horacio Quiroga's story "Cuentos Escogidos." The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context. Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), a celebrated writer of the short story, played a leading role in the Modernist movement that emerged in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. His...
Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Horacio Quiroga's story "Cuentos Escogidos." The series is designed to meet th...
Horacio Quiroga J. David Danielson J. David Danielson
Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony.
These are the stories of the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, here presented in an important compilation of thirteen of his most compelling tales, sensitively selected and translated by J. David Danielson. Author of some two hundred pieces of fiction, often compared to the works of Kipling, Jack London, and Edgar Allan...
Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of...
Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide...
Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Autho...
Horacio Quiroga (1878 -1937) es cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo. Fue el maestro del cuento latinoamericano, de prosa vivida, naturalista y modernista. Sus relatos breves, que a menudo retratan a la naturaleza como enemiga del ser humano bajo rasgos temibles y horrorosos, le valieron ser comparado con el estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe. La vida de Quiroga, marcada por la tragedia, los accidentes de caza y los suicidios, culmino por decision propia cuando bebio un vaso de cianuro en el Hospital de Clinicas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires a los 58 anos de edad, tras enterarse de que padecia...
Horacio Quiroga (1878 -1937) es cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo. Fue el maestro del cuento latinoamericano, de prosa vivida, naturalista y mode...
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 - 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortazar. Translator: Arthur Livingston"
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 - 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories wh...
La selva es el escenario y personaje omnipresente de estos cuentos. La selva misionera, con su violencia natural incontenible, frente al hombre, aliado a veces, destructor las mas, de esa naturaleza salvaje. Humor y tragedia se combinan eficazmente en estos cuentos, dando como resultado ejemplos antologicos de ese dificil arte que es el cuento, en el que Quiroga se revelo autentico maestro. Relatos La tortuga gigante. Las medias de los flamencos. El loro pelado. La guerra de los yacares. La gama ciega. Historia de dos cachorros de coati y de dos cachorros de hombre. El paso del Yabebiri. La...
La selva es el escenario y personaje omnipresente de estos cuentos. La selva misionera, con su violencia natural incontenible, frente al hombre, aliad...
