Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga
Born(1878-12-31)31 December 1878
Salto, Uruguay
Died19 February 1937(1937-02-19) (aged 58)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouses
  • Ana María Cires (1909–1915)
  • María Bravo (m. 1927)
Children3

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. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states,[1] a skill he gleaned from Edgar Allan Poe, according to some critics.[2] His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.[3]

  1. ^ "Horacio-Quiroga". Encyclopædia Britannica on line.
  2. ^ Čadova, Romana (2007). La influencia de Edgar Allan Poe en Horacio Quiroga (PDF) (in Spanish). Masaryk University.
  3. ^ Del George, Dana (2001). The supernatural in short fiction of the Americas: the other world in the New World. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 81. ISBN 0-313-31939-1.

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