· The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, A collection was published with the same title during Quiroga's lifetime: La Gallina Degollada y Otros Cuentos, This is not a translation of that work, but a new collection of stories spanning Quiroga's www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories available in Paperback, NOOK Book. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. ISBN ISBN Pub. Date: 05/01/ Publisher: University of Texas Press. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories. by Horacio Quiroga, Margaret Sayers Peden, George D. Schade | Read Price: $ The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga was not an easy read. Written in eloquent prose, this short story collection is struggles with two main themes running simultaneously throughout the collection: One of death in its many forms, and one of admiration/5.
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, A collection was published with the same title during Quiroga's lifetime: La Gallina Degollada y Otros Cuentos, This is not a translation of that work, but a new collection of stories spanning Quiroga's career. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories, by Horacio Quiroga To master the short story is to possess the ability to tersely describe the critical moment, the veritable crux of events, ideas, and emotions—and to capture that moment so that readers can contemplate and appreciate the revealed profundity in these smallest of prose packages.
The atmosphere of The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories is more or less bleak and disgusting in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. The strong impression that the work of the latter and also of Guy de Maupassant and Rudyard Kipling left on Horacio Quiroga is obvious in his writings although they are salted with a distinctly South American touch and certain aspects like mysterious and. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, A collection was published with the same title during Quiroga's lifetime: La Gallina Degollada y Otros Cuentos, This is not a translation of that work, but a new collection of stories spanning Quiroga's career. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories. 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 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in.
0コメント