by Horacio Quiroga · Bärenhaus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789874603968
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«La justa proporción de las cosas y otros cuentos» is a short story collection by Horacio Quiroga, published by Bärenhaus in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
The stories gathered here maintain Quiroga's style: inevitable fatality, the overflow of madness, and an attraction to the strange and macabre. The prose builds believable settings and leads the reader toward an ending that, once revealed, reflects without concessions the human condition.
Second volume of Horacio Quiroga's story collection, whose first volume brought together Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte and Cuentos de la selva. Published in 2016.
Recommended for readers interested in the Latin American short story and in Horacio Quiroga's brief narrative.
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.
