by Horacio Quiroga · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789684690219
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«Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte» is a collection of short stories by Horacio Quiroga in paperback (175 pages, in Spanish).
The stories in this volume move between love, madness, and death: extreme passions, characters at their limits, and outcomes marked by fatality. In many tales, nature and fate conspire against the protagonists' sanity, turning everyday scenes into unsettling experiences.
Suitable for readers of Latin American literature interested in intense and disturbing stories.
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.
