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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. He also excelled in depicting mental ...
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. Fue uno de los maestros del cuento latinoamericano , de prosa vívida, naturalista y modernista . [ 2 ]
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).
Apr 2, 2014 · Uruguayan-born writer Horacio Quiroga penned short stories inspired by the jungle before committing suicide in 1937. He is considered among the greatest Latin American storytellers of all time.
Summary and analysis. “Adrift,” a short story by Horacio Quiroga, narrates the intense struggle for survival of Paulino, a man who lives in the imposing missionary jungle on the border of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. One of the most emblematic of Quiroga’s work, this story immerses the reader in an experience where Nature plays a ...
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).
