Author: rd
Publisher: RD
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In Tales of Love madness and death, we find the solitary author who has personally met these same realities. This is a series of stories written in the jungle, in the border area of missions, and also what you learned reading or Chekhov distanced Mauupassant. Some stories collected in the volume of 1917 we may seem insane and morbid, however, no longer a tribute to the master of a genre that is almost a literary heritage of Latin America. Despite the horrific episode that encapsulates the Gallina cutthroat, for example, it may be noted the overwhelming coldness of narration, an imperturbable logic and annihilating: the four idiots children have learned in the corral how to kill his own sister, the only normal home. In Lone obsessed with his work of goldsmith murder his wife man stabbing a pin in the heart ... Quiroga's stories, obsessive and hallucinating, remain the most precious narrative model for new generations of storytellers. best books to read of all time, best books to read 2018, fiction books everyone should read, fiction horror books, latest books, book recommendations fiction, best fiction books of all time, top fiction books 2018, horror fiction stories,
Tales of love, madness and death
Author: rd
Publisher: RD
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In Tales of Love madness and death, we find the solitary author who has personally met these same realities. This is a series of stories written in the jungle, in the border area of missions, and also what you learned reading or Chekhov distanced Mauupassant. Some stories collected in the volume of 1917 we may seem insane and morbid, however, no longer a tribute to the master of a genre that is almost a literary heritage of Latin America. Despite the horrific episode that encapsulates the Gallina cutthroat, for example, it may be noted the overwhelming coldness of narration, an imperturbable logic and annihilating: the four idiots children have learned in the corral how to kill his own sister, the only normal home. In Lone obsessed with his work of goldsmith murder his wife man stabbing a pin in the heart ... Quiroga's stories, obsessive and hallucinating, remain the most precious narrative model for new generations of storytellers. best books to read of all time, best books to read 2018, fiction books everyone should read, fiction horror books, latest books, book recommendations fiction, best fiction books of all time, top fiction books 2018, horror fiction stories,
Publisher: RD
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In Tales of Love madness and death, we find the solitary author who has personally met these same realities. This is a series of stories written in the jungle, in the border area of missions, and also what you learned reading or Chekhov distanced Mauupassant. Some stories collected in the volume of 1917 we may seem insane and morbid, however, no longer a tribute to the master of a genre that is almost a literary heritage of Latin America. Despite the horrific episode that encapsulates the Gallina cutthroat, for example, it may be noted the overwhelming coldness of narration, an imperturbable logic and annihilating: the four idiots children have learned in the corral how to kill his own sister, the only normal home. In Lone obsessed with his work of goldsmith murder his wife man stabbing a pin in the heart ... Quiroga's stories, obsessive and hallucinating, remain the most precious narrative model for new generations of storytellers. best books to read of all time, best books to read 2018, fiction books everyone should read, fiction horror books, latest books, book recommendations fiction, best fiction books of all time, top fiction books 2018, horror fiction stories,
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299198343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
From the Publisher: 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.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299198343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
From the Publisher: 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 Love, Madness and Death
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781804470923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An extraordinary writer whose work has long been woefully neglected in English translation, Quiroga's tales - and the life of the writer behind them - are a fever dream of morbidity and horror. Frequently compared to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, this avant-garde collection is staggeringly modern in its content, and is suffused with the themes and settings of his later works. Quiroga's first published short-story collection, Tales of Love, Madness and Death is presented here in a brand-new translation, and also includes his lauded tongue-in-cheek 'Ten Commandments for Short-Story Writers', readying some of the great writer's finest work for a new generation of readers. 'Quiroga's stories are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects, and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic.' (John Updike, New Yorker)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781804470923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An extraordinary writer whose work has long been woefully neglected in English translation, Quiroga's tales - and the life of the writer behind them - are a fever dream of morbidity and horror. Frequently compared to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, this avant-garde collection is staggeringly modern in its content, and is suffused with the themes and settings of his later works. Quiroga's first published short-story collection, Tales of Love, Madness and Death is presented here in a brand-new translation, and also includes his lauded tongue-in-cheek 'Ten Commandments for Short-Story Writers', readying some of the great writer's finest work for a new generation of readers. 'Quiroga's stories are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects, and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic.' (John Updike, New Yorker)
Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction
Author: Jefferson Rea Spell
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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 Love
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231060257
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From the Publisher: Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231060257
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From the Publisher: Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self.
Tales of Love, Madness and Death
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Tales of love, madness and death is the result of that tormented life and it is where he displays all his gifts. In these stories, the mystery is master and lord, although always immersed in everyday situations, which increases the impact. Madness and love are constantly intertwined, to inevitably lead to death. His stories, charged with implicit violence, produce an asphyxiating tension that is only released with the most unexpected of endings. The jungle and wild setting of the Missions that he knew, frame his stories.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Tales of love, madness and death is the result of that tormented life and it is where he displays all his gifts. In these stories, the mystery is master and lord, although always immersed in everyday situations, which increases the impact. Madness and love are constantly intertwined, to inevitably lead to death. His stories, charged with implicit violence, produce an asphyxiating tension that is only released with the most unexpected of endings. The jungle and wild setting of the Missions that he knew, frame his stories.
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442441011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red.... A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors.... A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave.... Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled. Here are four tales -- The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher -- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The original tales have been ever so slightly dismembered -- but, of course, Poe understood dismemberment very well. And he would shriek in ghoulish delight at Gris Grimly's gruesomely delectable illustrations that adorn every page. So prepare yourself. And keep the lights on.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442441011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red.... A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors.... A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave.... Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled. Here are four tales -- The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher -- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The original tales have been ever so slightly dismembered -- but, of course, Poe understood dismemberment very well. And he would shriek in ghoulish delight at Gris Grimly's gruesomely delectable illustrations that adorn every page. So prepare yourself. And keep the lights on.
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471104990
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A murderer driven to the edge by the sound of his victim's still-beating heart… A mental institution run by someone other than its staff… A mysterious box aboard a ship with a ghastly secret… And the hypnotist's stare that could, perhaps, paralyze even death… Strap into your straitjacket, fasten it tight, and brace yourself! For within these pages are stories of lost love, lost ways… and lost minds. Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics, including perennial favourite, The Tell Tale Heart, with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. Read them if you dare ~ and celebrate, in true Poe style, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth ofthe great Master of the Macabre.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471104990
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A murderer driven to the edge by the sound of his victim's still-beating heart… A mental institution run by someone other than its staff… A mysterious box aboard a ship with a ghastly secret… And the hypnotist's stare that could, perhaps, paralyze even death… Strap into your straitjacket, fasten it tight, and brace yourself! For within these pages are stories of lost love, lost ways… and lost minds. Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics, including perennial favourite, The Tell Tale Heart, with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. Read them if you dare ~ and celebrate, in true Poe style, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth ofthe great Master of the Macabre.
The Angel in My Pocket
Author: Sukey Forbes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127578
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
After losing her daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life for Sukey Forbes is completely shattered. As devastated as she is, Forbes searches for ways to deal with her grief. She wants desperately to recover a full, meaningful life on the private island of Naushon where she and her family live. Forbes begins exploring her family's rich history of spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who similarly lost a young child.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127578
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
After losing her daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life for Sukey Forbes is completely shattered. As devastated as she is, Forbes searches for ways to deal with her grief. She wants desperately to recover a full, meaningful life on the private island of Naushon where she and her family live. Forbes begins exploring her family's rich history of spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who similarly lost a young child.