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Summary: Cuentos de amor , de locura y muerte spanish review.
Review: Horacio Quiroga fue uno de los grandes que todavía repercute entre los aficionados a la literatura. cuentos de amor locura y muerte es un libro espectacular ,de dramatismo fantástico que llega a un punto de sutil crueldad. Para el que lee estos relatos la experiencia es inolvidable. A mí particularmente me parece excelente esta colección de cuentos y siempre será uno de los libros que volveré a leer hasta que me lo sepa de memoria.
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Summary: Horacio Quiroga probably didn't have a "normal" childhood
Review: Horacio Quiroga gives us a world of darkness in this collection: morphine-addled beauties, desperate lovers, demented children, suicidally apathetic sailors, all walking the landscape of a strict, not quite repressive, Latin society. The writing is beautiful, if arcane. I have occasionally needed to consult my English dictionary after translating a word with my Spanish-English dictionary. However, these stories are a wonderful example of just how flowery and expressive Spanish can be. Each story is deeply unsettling. I can't wait to read more of this author.
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Summary: Quiroga's best
Review: Horacio Quiroga has been considered one of the best Latin American short story writers. This book is the best proof of that assesment. It is not fair to judge Quiroga's style based only upon the cruelty of "La Gallina Degollada" (The decapitated chicken), which -by the way- is a lesson on how to write short stories. This diminishes the quality of the other tales, sprinkled with social testimony (and subtle denunciations), love stories, and with plenty of humanity. Quiroga's love for nature is reflected occasionally in this book as his characters struggle against it. Other books are better examples: Cuentos de la Selva (a must in children's literature) and two of my favorite ones: Anaconda and El Regreso de Anaconda. However this book demonstrates how few words a genial writer needs to describe insanity, bravery, and love as unavoidable parts of Humankind.
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Summary: Never see your pillow the same way again
Review: Horacio Quiroga is a giant of literature. Please discover this writer. He wrote some of the most unsettling stories ever penned. Try the feathered pillow, one of the most frightening short stoies ever written. I feel my flesh tingle as I think of it. A masterwork...Oh to lay ones' head in soft(?) pillows
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Summary: The spanish is sort of difficult to understand....
Review: i thought it was a good book. i bought it for a spanish class assignment, and was not disappointed in reading it. horacio quiroga is a very passionate (and somewhat mysterious) author, and i enjoyed reading his work. :)
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Summary: The most unsettling...
Review: La gallina degollada is the most unsettling short story I have ever read. It may have something to do with having an 18 month old child at the time that I first read the story. It takes us through a horror that makes one feel that the author has crossed the line and dragged us across with him. I still want to read the other stories in this collection.
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Summary: These stories still haunt me.
Review: Naively I thought that these stories would be either about love, madness or death. What a surprize when I realized that they contained all three elements! I have been studying Spanish on my own and found this the most interesting book of short stories I have ever read, English or Spanish. Every story packs a punch.
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Summary: complicado
Review: sus cuentos son dificiles de entender.No fue de mi agrado.
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Summary: The latin american mirror image of Poe !
Review: The fertile mind of Horacio Quiroga , his enormous talen and best gifted pen make of him a must reference in the literature world .
In the fantastic genre you just have to look back the names of Guy of Maupassant , Robert Stevenson , Julio Verne , Edgar Allan Poe , Franz Kafka , Jorge Luis Borges and Horacio Quiroga .
The basic triumph of Quiroga trurns around the form he seduces the reader . Without any kind of restrictions he goes from the eye to the soul and mind so fast and suggestively that you hardly will be able to believe it .
His narrative technique is very close to the cinematographic method .
Quiroga and Antoine Artaud seem to be the prodigal sons of the cinema .
Back to the book , Quiroga goes to the american jungle and builds a superb puzzle where the outer atmosphere blends with syncronized perfection to the human soul , its little miseries , normal decadence and its unbeatable fellow trip : the greed .
Get close to Quiroga world and you will get surprised .
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Summary: Suspenseful Storytelling... Great Book!
Review: Todos los cuentos en este libro son excelentes... Queria terminar uno para empezar el proximo. Su manera de escribir y contar con tantos detalles es increible. Mi favorita es, "La gallina degollada." You are in suspense the whole time! I'd recommend this to everyone. : )
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