by Horacio Quiroga · Menoscuarto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493382322
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«Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte» is a collection of short stories by Horacio Quiroga, published by Menoscuarto in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
Quiroga's stories are marked by his biography: the jungle, tragic deaths, suicide, and solitary fatherhood. Love and illness, sanity and madness, passion and remorse are a step away. This edition adds three stories suppressed by the author and several of his texts on the short story as a genre.
Third volume of the Reloj de Arena collection, with a preliminary essay by Andrés Neuman. First edition at Menoscuarto published in 2004.
Recommended for readers of Latin American narrative and the modern short story, as well as for those who want an edition with a critical introduction.
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature. His portrayals of mental illness and hallucinatory states were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. In turn, Quiroga influenced Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar.
