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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 by poison. In the end, Quiroga himself downed
cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from
an incurable cancer.
In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the
violence he had experienced. His stories are infused with death,
too, but they span a wide range of short fiction genres: jungle
tale, Gothic horror story, morality tale, psychological study. Many
of his stories are set in the steaming jungle of the Misiones
district of northern Argentina, where he spent much of his life,
but his tales possess a universality that elevates them far above
the work of a regional writer.
The first representative collection of his work in English, The
Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview
of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill
that have made him a classic Latin American writer.
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El Salvaje
Horacio Quiroga
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El Crimen del Otro
Horacio Quiroga
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Cuentos Dispersos
Horacio Quiroga
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Discovery Miles 5 160
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This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair,
exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the
selection. Held to be among the greatest writers of short-fiction,
Horacio Quiroga has been compared to Kipling and Poe.
A combined volume of the two short stories, The Feather Pillow and
The Permanent Stiletto.
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 Poe,
Quiroga set many of his stories in the territory of Misiones in
northeastern Argentina, the subtropical jungle region where he
spent much of his life.
Included here are stories from Los desterrados (1926) often said
to be his best book, as well as others from Cuentos de amor de
locura y de muerte (1917), Anaconda (1921), and El Desierto (1924).
The publication of this selection marks the first appearance in
English of all but two of the thirteen stories.
Quiroga here presents a wide range of characters: parents and
children, servant girls and prostitutes, landowners and lumber
barons, foremen and laborers, natives and immigrants, in stories
pervaded by a vision of life that is elemental, incisive, and
essentially tragic. The Exiles and Other Stories shows the
versatility and skill that have made him a classic Spanish American
writer. It complements and illumines The Decapitated Chicken and
Other Stories, selected and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden,
also published by the University of Texas Press.
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