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Speaking of Stories from the page to the stage |
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HORACIO QUIROGA Horacio Quiroga, was a Uruguayan writer, born in Salto in 1878. He spent a brief time in Paris in 1900 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. 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. He began to write poetry in the modernist style, with The reefs of coral (1901) but with little effect. 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. He was influenced by and identified with the works of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and, especially, Edgar Allan Poe for his writings on crime, madness and the delirious conditions which populate his stories. 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 (libro de lectura para niños, en colaboración con Leonard Glusberg) and Más allá (1935). Horacio committed suicide in Buenos Aires in 1937.
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