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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Quiroga, Horacio
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- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780292715417
- Book Title
- Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
- Book Series
- Texas Pan American Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publication Year
- 1976
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, Short Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 214 Pages
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Product Identifiers
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
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1976
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Short Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections
Book Series
Texas Pan American Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
75-040167
Dewey Edition
18
Reviews
[Quiroga's stories] are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic.
Dewey Decimal
863
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)
Synopsis
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., Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. 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., Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.
LC Classification Number
PQ8519.Q5A26 1984
Copyright Date
1976
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