Tales of Love, Madness and Death

Horacio Quiroga author Diego Jourdan Pereira translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Renard Press Ltd

Published:30th May '24

£8.99

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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 *

ISBN: 9781804470923

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224 pages