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Horacio Quiroga The Decapitated Chicken and Other Storie (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
- Publication Name
- The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
- Title
- The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
- Translator
- Margaret Sayers Peden
- Contributor
- Margaret Sayers Peden (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0292715412
- EAN
- 9780292715417
- ISBN
- 9780292715417
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Release Date
- 01/05/1976
- Release Year
- 1976
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Series
- Texas Pan American Series
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 1976
- Number of Pages
- 214 Pages
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Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide by poison. In the end, Quiroga himself downed cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from an incurable cancer. In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the violence he had experienced. His stories are infused with death, too, but they span a wide range of short fiction genres: jungle tale, Gothic horror story, morality tale, psychological study. Many of his stories are set in the steaming jungle of the Misiones district of northern Argentina, where he spent much of his life, but his tales possess a universality that elevates them far above the work of a regional writer. 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.
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292715412
ISBN-13
9780292715417
eBay Product ID (ePID)
125627
Product Key Features
Book Title
Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
1976
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq8519.Q5a26 1984
Reviews
[Quiroga's stories] are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic.
Table of Content
Introduction The Feather Pillow (1907) Sunstroke (1908) The Pursued (1908) The Decapitated Chicken (1909) Drifting (1912) A Slap in the Face (1916) In the Middle of the Night (1919) Juan Darién (1920) The Dead Man (1920) Anaconda (1921) The Incense Tree Roof (1922) The Son (1935)
Copyright Date
1976
Lccn
75-040167
Dewey Decimal
863
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Texas Pan American Ser.
Dewey Edition
18
Illustrated
Yes
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