by Horacio Quiroga · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479691950
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«La insolación y otros relatos» is a collection of short stories by Horacio Quiroga, published by Compañía Europea de Comunicación e Información in paperback.
A volume of short stories by Horacio Quiroga set in the Misiones jungle, where nature, death and madness mark the characters. The title story takes place on a sweltering estate and is narrated from the point of view of the house dogs, who see the appearance of a figure as an ill omen.
Published in 1991 in the Biblioteca de El Sol collection (no. 165), in a 94-page edition.
For readers of Latin American fiction interested in the short stories of Horacio Quiroga.
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature. His portrayals of mental illness and hallucinatory states were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. In turn, Quiroga influenced Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar.
