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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive.
Horacio Quiroga (born December 31, 1878, Salto, Uruguay—died February 19, 1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan-born short-story writer whose imaginative portrayal of the struggle of humans and animals to survive in the tropical jungle earned him recognition as a master of the short story.
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.
Nov 27, 2023 · Horacio Quiroga was a Uruguayan author, playwright, and poet considered one of the most prominent Latin American short story writers, the founder of a tradition that continues to this day, and heir to the American short story writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Though famous to readers of Spanish American literature exclusively for his short fiction, Horacio Quiroga wrote, to a limited degree and with equally limited success, in other forms as well.
“Adrift,” a short story by Horacio Quiroga, originally published on June 7, 1912, in “Fray Mocho,” is a narrative that immerses us in the desperate struggle of a man against the deadly effects of a snake’s venom and his lonely confrontation with the inevitability of death.
Jun 9, 2022 · Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (Salto, Uruguay; December 31, 1878 - Buenos Aires, Argentina; February 19, 1937) was a Uruguayan writer of short stories, plays, and poetry. He was one of the masters of the Latin American short story, known for his vivid, naturalistic, and modernist prose.
Horacio Quiroga, 1897. I’ve seen Quiroga’s stories compared variously to Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, and Rudyard Kipling; he himself acknowledged the influences of Poe, Kipling and de Maupassant on his work. Like Poe, he had a theory of the perfect short story (one he often contradicted in his own work).
Horacio Quiroga ( b. 31 December 1878; d. 19 February 1937), Uruguayan writer and one of Spanish America's greatest narrators. Quiroga was born in Salto; his father died in a hunting accident when he was three months old.
Oct 12, 2023 · Horacio Quiroga fue un escritor, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo, considerado como uno de los más destacados cuentistas de América Latina, iniciador de una tradición que perdura hasta el presente y heredero del también cuentista estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
