(Una historia inmoral Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muer...)
Una historia inmoral Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte El infierno artificial Los ojos sombríos Una estación de amor La muerte de Isolda El solitario Los Buques Suicidantes A la Deriva La insolación El alambre de púa Los Mensú La gallina degollada El almohadón de plumas Yaguaí Los pescadores de vigas La miel silvestre Nuestro primer cigarro La meningitis y su sombra La mancha hiptálmica Más allá El conductor del Rápido El perro rabioso Cuentos de la selva La abeja haragana Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre Las medias de los flamencos La tortuga gigante El paso del Yabebirí El loro pelado La guerra de los yacarés La gama ciega Anaconda El desierto El hijo El hombre muerto El espectro Decálogo del perfecto cuentista Una noche de edén Pasado amor Las rayas El vampiro Juan Darién El balde El gerente El globo de fuego El haschich El potro salvaje El síncope blanco La patria La princesa bizantina Las moscas Las voces queridas que se han callado Los bebedores de sangre Los guantes de goma Un idilio Un peón Una conquista Decálogo del perfecto cuentista Manual del perfecto cuentista 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. Fue el maestro del cuento latinoamericano, de prosa vívida, naturalista y modernista. 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.
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"Hemos seleccionado los mejores 9 cuentos de Horacio Quiroga y te los presentamos en una nueva y cuidada edición. Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay, 1878-1937) es una de las voces más leídas y emblemáticas de la literatura uruguaya y latinoamericana. Sus libros ""Cuentos de la selva"" y ""Cuentos de locura de amor y de muerte"" marcaron a distintas generaciones con historias fantásticas narradas con gran maestría. Les presentamos una selección de los mejores cuentos de Quiroga entre los que están: El almohadón de plumas, La tortuga gigante, Las medias de los flamencos, La abeja haragana, La gallina degollada, Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y dos cachorros de hombre, El potro salvaje, Hombre muerto, La gama ciega."
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( Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy a...)
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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(Los Destiladores De Naranja De Horacio Quiroga)
Los Destiladores De Naranja De Horacio Quiroga
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(Collection of eight short stories in which Quiroga captur...)
Collection of eight short stories in which Quiroga captures the magic of the jungle, which is the scene of exciting adventures illuminated by nature in all its splendor. A place where snakes throw glamorous parties with flamingos, stingrays join forces to fight off man-eating jaguars, and a giant tortoise carries a wounded man on its shell for hundreds of kilometers to bring him to safety.
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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.
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(Horacio Quiroga fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta urug...)
Horacio Quiroga fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo, maestro del cuento latinoamericano, cuya prosa vívida, se enmarcó en la tradición naturalista y modernista. Sus relatos breves, a menudo retratan a la naturaleza como una enemiga innata del ser humano, bajo cuya superficie en apariencia inocua se esconden secretos temibles y horrorosos, lo que le valió ser comparado con el estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe. La vida de Quiroga, marcada por la tragedia, culminó por decisión propia, al beber un vaso de cianuro tras enterarse a los 58 años de edad, de que padecía cáncer de próstata. Esta colección, incluye Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte, sin duda, su obra más reconocida, el relato fabuloso Anaconda, a través de cuyas páginas se narra magistralmente el encuentro de la Anaconda con la bestia más temible de todas, el hombre, y Cuentos de la selva, donde nos encontramos con el Quiroga atemperado que lega en estos cuentos de animales de la fauna hispanoamericana, de apariencia infantil, pensamientos de evocaciones míticas, acerca de la vida y la muerte.
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(Horacio Quiroga nació en Uruguay el 31 de Diciembre de 18...)
Horacio Quiroga nació en Uruguay el 31 de Diciembre de 1878, y murió en Buenos Aires (Argentina) el 19 de Febrero de 1937. Su género preferido de expresión - por lo directo y vivo para decir sus ideas - es el cuento. Quiroga es considerado uno de los mayores cuentistas latinoamericanos de todos los tiempos. Su obra se sitúa entre el ocaso del modernismo y el surgimiento de la vanguardia. En esta colección publicamos 50 cuentos de Quiroga que aparecieron bajo los títulos: El Crimen del Otro, Cuentos de amor, locura y muerte, Cuentos de la selva, Los desterrados, El Desierto, La Gallina Degollada y Otros Cuentos, El Más Allá, El Salvaje y El Sillón del Dolor. Los temas de esta colección son el desencanto, amargura y muerte, amor, coraje y dignidad. La vida de Horacio Quiroga no fue ajena a estos temas, pues estuvo marcada por la tragedia, el horror y la morbosidad que expresa elocuentemente en sus historias cortas.
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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.
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(Cuentos de la selva By Horacio Quiroga)
Cuentos de la selva By Horacio Quiroga
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Horacio Quiroga was born on December 31, 1878 in Salto, Uruguay. Though born and raised in Uruguay, he spent most of his years in neighboring Argentina. When he was only a baby in arms his father was accidentally killed when a shotgun went off on a family outing.
Quiroga finished school in Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied at the National College and also attended Polytechnic Institute of Montevideo for technical training.
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. 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. In 1906 he bought some land in San Ignacio, Misiones, and from then on divided his time chiefly between the hinterland and Buenos Aires. While living in the jungle Quiroga tried various experiments, such as distilling an orange liqueur. 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. Quiroga began writing under the influence of Modernism, a literary movement which dominated Spanish American Literature at the turn of the century. 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. Many of these early stories are reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, whose influence marked much of his work. "The Feather Pillow" ("El almohadón de pluma") is a good example of his expert handling of the Gothic tale. 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.
Among 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 splendid title of the first of these volumes sets forth his major themes and could properly be the heading for his entire work. Quiroga also achieved great popularity with his Jungle Tales (Cuentos de la selva) in 1918, with its title reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling. This collection is made up of stories in a fable mold, with talking animals and usually an underlying moral. They are filled with humor and tenderness and are appropriate for children of all ages. Another of his celebrated tales, Anaconda (1921), describes a world of snakes and how they battle men and also one another. 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.
In the Spanish-speaking world he is still much admired today.
For three decades in the early 20th century Quiroga published stories in great quantity-his total output ran over 200-and many of them are of impressive quality. The work generally recognized as his masterpiece, Anaconda (1921), portrays on several levels-realistic, philosophical, and symbolic-the battles of the snakes in the tropical jungle, the nonpoisonous anaconda and the poisonous viper.
(Una historia inmoral Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muer...)
(Considered by many to be one of the first Latin American ...)
(Horacio Quiroga fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta urug...)
(Collection of eight short stories in which Quiroga captur...)
( Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy a...)
(Horacio Quiroga nació en Uruguay el 31 de Diciembre de 18...)
("Hemos seleccionado los mejores 9 cuentos de Horacio Quir...)
(This collection of stories includes tales about illness, ...)
(Los Destiladores De Naranja De Horacio Quiroga)
(Cuentos de la selva By Horacio Quiroga)
He had a sharp awareness of the problems besetting man on every side—not only the pitfalls of savage nature but also those referring to human relationships. Quiroga pointed out man's weaknesses and failings, but he also stressed the heroic virtues of courage, generosity, and compassion in many of his best stories. All this rich human material is shaped into story form by a master craftsman.
Quotations: "Tell the tale as if the story's only interest lay in the small surroundings of your characters, of which you might have been one. In no other way is life achieved in the short story. "
In 1915 his first wife, unable to endure the hardships of life in the jungle of northern Argentina where Quiroga insisted on living, committed suicide by taking a fatal dose of poison, leaving the widower with two small children to raise. Quiroga himself, when he realized he was incurably ill with cancer, took his own life. His love affairs and marriages were also turbulent. He married twice, both times to younger women; his second wife, a friend of his daughter, was nearly 30 years his junior.
