About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Horacio Quiroga, Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Eduardo Galeano, Pedro Bordaberry, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Florencio Sanchez, Jose Enrique Rodo, Mario Benedetti, Cristina Peri Rossi, Hermenegildo Sabat, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jorge Majfud, Leonardo Garet, Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Luis Camnitzer, Carlos Rehermann, Ruben Cotelo, Angel Rama, Fabio Zerpa, Manuel Bernardez, Carlos Sherman, Dani Umpi, Amanda Berenguer, Carmen Posadas, Enrique Amorim, Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Jesus Moraes, Roy Berocay, Manuel Perez y Curis, Mauricio Rosencof, Antonio Lussich, Felisberto Hernandez, Hugo Achugar, Circe Maia, Helen Velando, Gerardo de Oscar, Danilo Pallares Echeverria, Ismael Cortinas, Horacio Bernardo, List of Uruguayan writers, Javier de Viana, Ernesto Herrera, Tomas de Mattos, Paul Dorrego, Amir Hamed, Maria Abella de Ramirez, Giselda Zani, Elias Regules, List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay, List of Uruguayan authors. Excerpt: Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (Salto, Uruguay, 31 December 1878 -Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and 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 Garcia Marquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortazar. Horacio Quiroga was born in Salto, Uruguay in 1878 as the sixth child to a middle class family. At the time of his birth, his father worked for eighteen years as head of the Vice-Consulate Argentine Break. Before Quiroga was two and half months old, on March 14 of 1879 his father accidentally fired a gun he carried in his hand and died. Quiroga was...
