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Read * The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories PDF by ! Horacio Quiroga eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories "Great" according to J from NY. Quiroga's work is some of the strangest material I've ever encountered, and also some of the grimmest. He has an acute awareness of mortality that expands with each tale and his prose, in translation is really lush and great. You will not come away from any of these stories feeling unaffected; this is what means to call something bizarro literature appropriately.. ""The best writer in Latin America -- bar none!!"" according to A Customer. Horacio Quiroga wrote lik
| Title | : | The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299198340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 166 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
They span many fiction genresjungle tale, Gothic horror story, psychological study, morality taleand possess a universality that has made him a classic Latin American writer.. Horacio Quiroga’s short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him
"As an author of the macabre and of nature, Quiroga redefined the borders of the fantastic, realizing that pure realism was an abomination of the marvelous and horrific reality of the Latin American jungle."Review: Latin American Literature and Arts"Quiroga’s stories are, like Poe’s, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects, and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic."New Yorker
"Great" according to J from NY. Quiroga's work is some of the strangest material I've ever encountered, and also some of the grimmest. He has an acute awareness of mortality that expands with each tale and his prose, in translation is really lush and great. You will not come away from any of these stories feeling unaffected; this is what means to call something bizarro literature appropriately.. ""The best writer in Latin America -- bar none!!"" according to A Customer. Horacio Quiroga wrote like no other. His use of words is phenomenal, and the way he describes the things and people and places in his stories is almost like being there. You can actually SEE the action develop and unfold before your eyes. He has the ability to literally write the reader into his stories. It gives me the impression of being one of the characters the action happens to during the story. After reading these, the stories are not easily forgotten. A classic for all time.. A master of horror and suspense A Customer Belatedly acknowledged as a masterful storyteller, Horacio Quiroga lived a life not a whit less tragical and colorful than those of his characters. From the beginning, his life was punctuated by tragedy and death, culminating in his suicide (he took cyanide). When still a teenager, he accidentally shot his best friend while showing him how to clean a gun. As an adult, he settled in the Misiones jungle, where he built a house with his own hands and tried to wring a living out of a farm. The life of hardship he endured there is masterfully reflected in some of his short stories, as are his lifelong obsessions, deat
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