The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Americas S.) - Softcover

Quiroga, Horacio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299198340 ISBN 13: 9780299198343

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Synopsis

Horacio Quiroga's short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him. They span many fiction genres - jungle tale, Gothic horror story, psychological study, morality tale - and possess a universality that has made him a classic Latin American writer.

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Review:

"Quiroga's stories are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects, and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic." - New Yorker"

From the Back Cover:

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0299198340
• ISBN 13: 9780299198343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166
• Editor: Vilar Irene
• Illustrator: Lindlof Ed