The 3 best books by Horacio Quiroga

At the top of Uruguayan literature, alternating his work with that of other great writers of whom he was a forerunner, such as Benedetti, Eduardo galeano u Onetti, we find an extensive bibliography such as that of Horace Quiroga that travels through the imaginary of half the world with the hook of his stories or stories.

Quiroga was capable of staging horrors in the style of Poe, in tune with his evil destiny and alternate it with almost children's stories that seem to cover his need for optimism and vitality.

The stage of the brief, where the most diverse characters pass with their short but always transcendental interventions, was loaded with exuberance, symbolism and more extensive meaning thanks to a pen like Quiroga's who made it a global resonance box.

And yet, it is not that Quiroga gained that aspect of eternal author of Uruguayan and Latin American literature during his existence. Because precisely the story and the story have never earned many friendships among the cultural elites more inclined to consider the balance between inspiration and transpiration of the novel as the highest demonstration of literary virtue.

But in the end time puts everyone in their place. And Horacio Quiroga, or rather his work, is that reference for readers of all ages who like to immerse themselves in unpredictable worlds, with that final moral, of an ethical or social aspect, that floods everything.

Top 3 recommended books by Horacio Quiroga

Tales of love, madness and death

That circumstances command is undeniable. That the storms are unleashed in the most creative spirits towards creations polarized between the instincts of survival and the yearnings to surrender to misfortune, it is something evident.

This is the most representative work of Horacio Quiroga. In these stories, Quiroga handles himself with absolute mastery in the field of horror narration (not in vain is he compared to Poe and Maupassant, as can be seen when reading such shocking stories as "The Cutthroat Chicken"), and offers us one of the greatest exponents of Latin American modernism. It is also the most personal work of someone whose tragic existence was marked by love as well as by madness and death.

Tales of love, madness and death

Tales from the jungle

Sometimes flight is the only option. Because fate has that taste for repetition that in the case of Quiroga was unleashed at will. But from that distance from everything and everyone, Quiroja also found cure, horror, resilience and sublimation. Otherwise, it would not be possible to understand a book like this one in which he dedicated himself to bringing children closer to the reality of the jungle environment in which he found his place away from the world for a long time. Always with a prism of careful detail, of pacifying purity for him and illuminating for the youngest readers from 8 years old or so.

These stories, invented for their own children during their stay in Misiones, are full of tenderness and moral lessons. Together they offer a cluster of educational values, drawn from animal behavior, in the style of what Aesop's fables were. The eight stories, with man as Nature's top predator, are perennially topical, due to their style and their commitment.

Tales from the jungle

Fantastic tales

This edition collects the best fantastic stories of the Uruguayan writer by birth and Argentine by adoption Horacio Quiroga, in which madness, the fantastic-terrifying reign, filled with insane elements and pure and horrifying amazement. He is the best heir to Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish and the first great contemporary Latin American short story writer. His writing is steeped in his personal experiences.

His life was marked by death, the suicide of family and friends and a stormy marital relationship. His stay in the jungle as a colonist in almost virgin lands, and other vital circumstances, pushed him to write stories, soon becoming one of the most prolific and original authors, in continuous experimentation and complete creative freedom.

Fantastic Tales
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