Tales Of Love Of Madness And Of Death / Cuentos De Amor De Locura Y De Muerte by Horacio Quiroga
A bleak, intense collection of short tales set largely in rural and jungle environments where passionate love, jealousy and obsessive madness collide with indifferent, often hostile nature, driving characters toward tragic or grotesque ends. The stories blend psychological realism with gothic and naturalistic elements, using stark, vivid prose to probe human vulnerability, fatalism and the fragile boundary between sanity and ruin. Many pieces hinge on sudden violence or ironic reversals, emphasizing mortality, the unpredictability of desire, and the dark consequences of uncontrolled emotion.
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- Published
- 1917
- Nationality
- Uruguayan
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-200
- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte
- Tales of Love, Madness and Death
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