Tales of love, madness and death

Book excerpt: 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,