Stories of love, madness, and death

King of Latin American Short Stories, Profoundly Influenced Márquez
Bolaño once said: "One must read Quiroga."
Representative translations by Spanish literature translator Mr. Lin Guang
Constantly re-published, translated into multiple languages
Editor's Recommendation
◎ "King of Latin American Short Stories" who influenced many Latin American literary masters
Quiroga's works have had a profound influence on the writing of Latin American literary masters such as Márquez, Cortázar, and Bolaño. His short stories are skillfully crafted and are often cited by masters as examples for young writers.
◎ The capriciousness of fate and the cruelty of nature have always been inexplicable; death is both a theme of his works and an eternal theme of life.
Like the theme of this book, the author's life was constantly surrounded by madness, accidents, and death. His father, stepfather, friends, daughter, and son successively died in accidents or by suicide, and the author himself committed suicide after learning he had cancer. Death, in the author's writing, is as commonplace as eating and as peaceful as falling asleep.
◎ If you like Edgar Allan Poe, then you absolutely cannot miss Quiroga.
Thriller, eerie, horror, dark. Like Edgar Allan Poe, Quiroga's stories have a magic that, even if readers can guess the ending, they are still constantly shocked as the plot unfolds.
◎ Founder of modern Latin American literature, pioneer of magical realism.
Quiroga is a key figure in the modernization process of Latin American literature. The intertwining of illusion and reality can be found everywhere in his stories. The short story "The Dead Man" selected in this book is even considered the world's first magical realist short story.
◎ In the hot, humid, and闷闷 jungle of South America, the struggle against fate and death never ceases. These are savage stories set in Latin America, where events of love, madness, and death unfold uncontrollably and wildly.
Synopsis
"Stories of Love, Madness and Death" is a collection of short stories by Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, featuring his famous work "Stories of Love, Madness and Death," the children's tales he wrote for his children, "Stories of the Great Forest," and other fables such as "Anaconda" and "Juan Darién," totaling 28 works. Quiroga excels at drawing themes from the unique social life and mysterious natural landscapes of Latin America, portraying characters and creating background atmospheres with a combination of realism and modernism, giving his works a vivid color and individuality entirely different from his predecessors.
Media Reviews
As a writer whose themes were death and nature, Quiroga redefined the boundaries of imagination, revealing that pure realism was abhorred by the unusual and terrible reality of the Latin American jungle.
—— "Latin American Literature and Art"
Celebrity Recommendations
Each story has its own world, just as Quiroga pointed out in his "Ten Commandments for the Perfect Short Story Writer": When narrating, act as if the story only matters to the characters' small environment, and you can become one of those characters; only then can the story gain vibrant vitality.
—— Julio Cortázar (Argentine writer, author of "The Southern Thruway")
One must read Quiroga, one must read Felisberto Hernández, one must read Borges. One must read Rulfo, Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez.
—— Roberto Bolaño (Chilean writer, author of "2666")
Young short story writers should carefully study how the masters begin their stories, and should read the opening paragraphs of the best works of Maupassant, Kipling, Sherwood Anderson, and Quiroga one by one, especially Quiroga, who is perhaps the most conscious of short story technique among them.
—— Juan Bosch (Dominican writer, former president of the country)
In our language, in any language, few can master the short story as skillfully as Quiroga.
—— Augusto Monterroso (Guatemalan writer, author of "The Black Sheep")

2018-12-01

四川文艺出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

360

9787541151231