name: Horacio Quiroga
birth_date: 1878-12-31 00:00:00
death_date: 1937-02-01 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
influences: Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Guy d, Leopoldo Lugones, Rubén Darío, Edgar Allan Poe
avg_rating: 3.95
ratings_count: 43215
about: Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer.He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_... Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer.He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_... ...more