About Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte
This book includes eighteen short stories, with subjects ranging from gothic horror (“La gallina degollada”), to inappropriate relationships (“Una estación de amor”, “La muerte de Isolda”), addiction (“El infierno artificial”), and an unforgiving nature (“La miel silvestre”, “Yaguaí”). Quiroga’s prose oscillates between a concise, rational style, and decadent, ostentatious sentences, a constant homage to his Romantic forefathers.
Horacio Quiroga
The uncontested master of modern Latin American narrative, Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay, 1878) draws his influences from modernist giants, such as Rubén Darío, and romantic and naturalist behemoths, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte, his most acclaimed work, includes “La gallina degollada” and “El amohadón de plumas”, classics of Spanish horror literature.