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Life and Works: Uruguayan short-story writer, considered a master of the short story. He wrote over 200 short stories. His work was deeply influenced by Kipling, Joseph Conrad and, especially, Edgar Allan Poe for his writings on crime, madness and the delirious conditions which populate his stories, Chekhov, and Maupassant as well as by the modernismo movement. Horacio Quiroga, was a Uruguayan writer, born in Salto in 1878. His father, who was an Argentinian consular official, was killed accidentally in a shooting incident when Horacio was an infant. In 1891 the family moved to the capital, Montevideo, where Quiroga studied for a short time at the university. He started to publish in local magazines from 1897 and was the founding editor of Revista de Salto (1899-90). In 1900, after his stepfather's death - he shot himself -, Quiroga took a short trip to Paris living the life of a poor bohemian but most of his career was spent in Argentina, where he became well know for his stories published in magazines and books and where he lived the rest of his life—a good deal of it as an unsuccessful agricultural pioneer. He worked for the consulate and was a cinema critic, and spent a lot of time living the rural life in Missions on the border of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, which provided the background for his stories. Quiroga's diary from this period was published in 1950. After returning to Uruguay, Quiroga published a volume of Modernist poetry, Los arrecifes de coral (1901), and became the centre of a group of young writers. Quiroga accidentally shot and killed his friend in 1902 while they were inspecting a gun. He left for Buenos Aires where he autorbusght Spanish at the British School. He was the official photographer on an expedition, led by the poet Leopoldo Lugones, to Misiones in northeast Argentina. The target was the Jesuit ruins - the Jesuits had been expelled in 1767. Quiroga became enchanted by the wild region and he spent the larger part of his life in remote jungle regions. Unable to tolerate the harsh conditions, Quiroga's wife committed suicide by poisoning herself - she suffered a full week before she died. Alone with two children, Quiroga wrote a tender collection of children's stories. His was a dramatic life, always near to poverty with troubled marriages, experimentation with drugs and the constant threat of suicide, however this fed him as a writer, one of the most important of America. In 1916 Quiroga returned to Buenos Aires with his children. He worked at the Uruguyan consulate and in 1925 he returned to Misiones. Two years later he married María Elena Bravo, a friend of his daughter. The marriage ended in separation. In 1935 Quiroga was appointed Uruguay's honorary consul in San Ignacio. Throughout his life, Quiroga was plague by his illnesses. He suffered from mental disorder, and to dispel his bouts of tension and anxiety, he began to drink. Quiroga committed suicide on February 19, 1937, at a Buenos Aires clinic, after he was told he had cancer. Horacio's work includes: El crimen de otro (1904), Historia de amor turbio (1908), Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (1917), Cuentos de la selva (1918), El salvaje (1920), Las sacrificadas (1929), Anaconda (1921), El desierto (1924), Los desterrados (1926), Pasado amor (1929), Suelo natal and Más allá (1935). His collections of stories Cuentos de la selva (1918), Anaconda (1921), and El desierto (1924), which echo the tales of Kipling, reflect his life in the jungle. His concern with strange and morbid themes is evident in Cuentos de amor, de locura, y de muerte (1917). |
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