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. In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the violence he had experienced. In the end, Quiroga himself downed cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from an incurable cancer.
Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide by poison. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. 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. Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy a.) The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series) Sus relatos, que a menudo retratan a la naturaleza bajo rasgos temibles y horrorosos, y como enemiga del ser humano, le valieron ser comparado con el estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe. Fue el maestro del cuento latinoamericano, de prosa vívida, naturalista y modernista. Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (Salto, Uruguay, 31 de diciembre de 1878 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19 de febrero de 1937) fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo. Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre Obras - Coleccion de Horacio Quiroga (Spanish Edition) Recognition for his mastery of the short story came to Quiroga fairly early in his career, and he continued to enjoy fame throughout his lifetime. Another of his celebrated tales, Anaconda (1921), describes a world of snakes and how they battle men and also one another. They are filled with humor and tenderness and are appropriate for children of all ages. This collection is made up of stories in a fable mold, with talking animals and usually an underlying moral. Quiroga also achieved great popularity with his Jungle Tales (Cuentos de la selva) in 1918, with its title reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling.
The splendid title of the first of these volumes sets forth his major themes and could properly be the heading for his entire work. The effects of horror, something mysterious and perverse filling the atmosphere, are there from the beginning of the story, with a sensational revelation at the end.Īmong the various collections of his stories, two should be singled out as high points: Stories of Love, Madness, and Death (Cuentos de amor, de locura, y de muerte, 1917) and The Exiled Ones (Los desterrados), published in 1926. "The Feather Pillow" ("El almohadón de pluma") is a good example of his expert handling of the Gothic tale. Many of these early stories are reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, whose influence marked much of his work. Soon, however, he reacted against the artificiality of his first book in this mode, published in 1901, Coral Reefs (Los arrecifes de coral), a collection of prose poems and poetry, and turned to writing tales firmly rooted in reality, although they often emphasized the strange or the monstrous. Quiroga began writing under the influence of Modernism, a literary movement which dominated Spanish American Literature at the turn of the century. These endeavors ended in failure but provided him with good materials for his stories, as did all his activities there, such as building his bungalow, his furniture, and canoes and hunting and studying the wildlife of the region. While living in the jungle Quiroga tried various experiments, such as distilling an orange liqueur. In 1906 he bought some land in San Ignacio, Misiones, and from then on divided his time chiefly between the hinterland and Buenos Aires. His first trip to Misiones province took place in 1903, when he accompanied his friend and fellow writer Leopoldo Lugones as photographer on an expedition to study the Jesuit ruins there. Quiroga's love of adventure and the attraction the jungle hinterland of northern Argentina held for him are also biographical details that have great impact on his writings.
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