Download or read book Anaconda written by Horacio Quiroga and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horacio Quiroga alcanzó gran repercusión entre la crítica y el público continental. Los cuentos aquí reunidos -aparecidos originalmente en publicaciones porteñas en los años anteriores- dan cuenta de un amplio periodo de su experiencia narrativa y vital: los primeros años en Buenos Aires, el deslumbramiento por la cinematografía, sus proyectos agrícolas en el Chaco, la profunda incursión en Misiones, el regreso a la capital. El relato epónimo es, quizás, uno de los más conocidos de la literatura latinoamericana. A través de sus páginas, quedan patente la admiración y la maravilla que sentía Quiroga por la selva y sus criaturas, al narrar magistralmente el encuentro de Anaconda con la bestia más temible de todas: el hombre

Download or read book A Translation of Horacio Quiroga s Anaconda written by Horacio Quiroga and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anaconda y otros cuentos written by Horacio Quiroga and published by EDAF. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El ser humano es un peligro para las serpientes y para la selva y, por eso, una de ellas convoca a las víboras y a las culebras a una asamblea en la que les revela que el hombre vive en las proximidades. Con esta presentación tan a ras de suelo, Horacio Quiroga obbliga a sus lectores -grandes y chicos- a plantearse la sociedad de los seres vivos como la de una balanza que siempre se desequilibra por el lado de los humanos.

Download or read book Horacio Quiroga Anaconda y Otros Cuentos written by Horacio Quiroga and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horacio Quiroga es considerado uno de los mayores cuentistas latinoamericanos de todos los tiempos. Ha dejado para la posteridad algunas de las piezas más terribles, brillantes y trascendentales de la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XX.

Download or read book South American Jungle Tales written by Horacio Quiroga and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South American Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga transports readers to the heart of the South American jungle, where they encounter fascinating tales of adventure, mystery, and the wonders of nature. Quiroga's masterful storytelling brings the jungle to life, making it a cherished read for fans of exotic tales.

Download or read book Anaconda written by Horacio Quiroga and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ante la sempiterna amenaza del ser humano para los ofidios de la selva, una culebra convoca a sus hermanas serpientes para elaborar un plan de acción y venganza. Con esta premisa Horacio Quiroga inicia Anaconda, un cuento de terror con tintes medioambientales en el que vuelve a presentar la madre naturaleza como cualquier cosa menos una entidad amable para el ser humano. Horacio Quiroda es un autor nacido en Uruguay en 1878 y fallecido en Argentina en 1937. Cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta, su obra ha sido comparada en numerosas ocasiones con la de otros maestros del cuento siniestro como Poe o Maupassant. Hoy en día se lo considera uno de los grandes maestros del cuento corto de terror, con algunas obras por derecho propio en el olimpo literario universal.

Download or read book Anarchism in Latin America written by Ángel J. Cappelletti and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.

Download or read book A Narrative Biography of Horacio Quiroga the Lone Anarchist written by Wilson Alves-Bezerra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and definitive biography in English of the Uruguayan-Argentinian short story writer Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), known as the Latin-American Poe. Written in amusing prose and with an academic background, which can be an important reference for the public in general as well as to Latin American literature researchers all over the world, it is an up-to-date, narrative biography by a Brazilian writer and researcher who has dedicated the last twenty years to Quiroga’s translation and research. The research uses several unknown or lesser-known documents as well as newspapers and magazines from the beginning of the 20th century, found in libraries and archives in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, and Uruguay. The book is written against a contemporary background, and focusses on the humanization of Quiroga and the participation of, until now, maginalized women in his personal and public life, such as Alfonsina Storni and Norah Lange, allowing the construction of an image which is less monumental and more complex in its contradictions.

Download or read book Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America written by Andrew Laird and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history – from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the currents of Romantic Hellenism which inspired liberators and nation-builders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discusses how the model of Roman imperialism, challenges to Aristotle’s theories of geography and natural slavery, and Cicero’s notion of the patria have had a pervasive influence on thought and politics throughout the Latin American region Brings together essays by specialists in art history, cultural anthropology and literary studies, as well as Americanists and scholars of the classical tradition Shows that appropriations of the Greco-Roman past are a recurrent catalyst for change in the Americas Calls attention to ideas and developments which have been overlooked in standard narratives of intellectual history

Download or read book The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories written by Horacio Quiroga and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos Volumen 2 written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contiene 70 cuentos de 10 autores clásicos, premiados y notables. Los cuentos fueron cuidadosamente seleccionados por el crítico August Nemo, en una colección que encantará a los amantes de la literatura. Para lo mejor de la literatura mundial, asegúrese de consultar los otros libros de Tacet Books. Este libro contiene: - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer:El rayo de luna. La ajorca de oro. La corza blanca. Maese Pérez el organista. Tres fechas. La rosa de pasión. La cruz del Diablo. - Horacio Quiroga:El vampiro. A la deriva. La cámara oscura. La gallina degolada. Nuestro primer cigarro. Tacuara-Mansión. Van-Houten. - Joaquín Díaz Garcés:De pillo a pillo. Director de veraneo. Juan Neira. Incendiario. Rubia... Huevos importados. Los dos pátios. - Joaquín Dicenta:Conjunciones. El cojito. El nido de gorriones. La desdicha de Juan. Todo en nada. Nochebuena. Un idilio en una jaula. - José Martí:El Padre las Casas. Las ruinas índias. Nené traviesa. La exposición de París. Bebé y el señor don Pomposo. La historia del hombre, contada por sus casas. La muñeca negra. - José Ortega Munilla:La capeta en el invierno. La espada y el arado. Cisóforo el mago. Los marineros de Ciérvana. El grumete. Los gritos de la calle. El "botones". - Juan Valera:El Bermejino pré-histórico. El pescadorcito Urashima. El Sr. Nichtverstehen. La reina madre. La cordobesa. El Duende-Beso. Quien no te conozca que te compre. - Julia de Asensi:La casa donde murió. El aeronauta. La fuga. Victoria. Sor María. Cosme y Damián. La vocación. - Leonid Andréiev:Ante el tribunal. Lázaro. ¡No hay perdón! Valía. El mistério. Sobremortal. Un extranjero. - Leopoldo Alas:"Flirtation" legítima. En la droguería. Viaje redondo. Benedictino. Cuento futuro. En el tren. Mi enterro.

Download or read book Horacio Quiroga written by Rodolfo Orozco Floripe and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature written by Verity Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.

Download or read book Gigantesco Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos Volume 1 written by Abraham Valdelomar and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 3002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contiene 350 cuentos de 50 autores clásicos, premiados y notables. Elegida sabiamente por el crítico literario August Nemo para la serie de libros 7 Mejores Cuentos, esta antología contiene los cuentos de los siguientes escritores: - Abraham Valdelomar - Antón Chéjov - Antonio de Trueba - Arturo Reyes - Baldomero Lillo - César Vallejo - Charles Perrault - Edgar Allan Poe - Emilia Pardo Bazán - Fray Mocho - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Horacio Quiroga - Joaquín Díaz Garcés - Joaquín Dicenta - José Martí - José Ortega Munilla - Juan Valera - Julia de Asensi - Leonid Andréiev - Leopoldo Alas - Leopoldo Lugones - Oscar Wilde - Ricardo Güiraldes - Roberto Arlt - Roberto Payró - Rubén Darío - Soledad Acosta de Samper - Teodoro Baró - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Washington Irving - Alfred de Musset - Marqués de Sade - Saki - Marcel Schwob - Iván Turguéniev - Julio Verne - Émile Zola - Villiers de L'Isle Adam - Mark Twain - León Tolstoi - Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Ambrose Bierce - Mijaíl Bulgákov - Lewis Carroll - Arthur Conan Doyle - James Joyce - Franz Kafka - H. P. Lovecraft - Machado de Assis - Guy de Maupassant

Download or read book Black Water written by Alberto Manguel and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 1992 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creature Discomfort written by Scott M. DeVries and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creature Discomfort: Fauna-criticism, Ethics, and the Representation of Animals in Spanish American Fiction and Poetry, Scott M. DeVries uncovers a tradition in Spanish American literature where animal-ethical representations anticipate many of the most pressing concerns from present debates in animal studies. The author documents moments from the corpus that articulate long-standing positions such as a defense of animal rights or advocacy for liberationism, that engage in literary philosophical meditations concerning mind theory and animal sentience, and that anticipate current ideas from Critical Animal Studies including the rejection of hierarchical differentiations between the categories human and nonhuman. Creature Discomfort innovates the notion of “fauna-criticism” as a new literary approach within animal studies; this kind of analysis emphasizes the reframing of literary history to expound animal ethical positions from literary texts, both those that have been considered canonical as well as those that have long been neglected. In this study, DeVries employs fauna-criticism to examine nonhuman sentience, animal interiority, and other ethical issues such as the livestock and pet industries, circuses, zoos, hunting, and species extinction in fictional narrative and poetry from the nineteenth century, modernista, Regional, indigenista, and contemporary periods of Spanish American literature.

Download or read book Mourning El Dorado written by Charlotte Rogers and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the "promise of El Dorado"—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.