{"product_id":"9781853994623","title":"Quiroga: Cuentos Escogidos","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSpanish Texts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eQuiroga: Cuentos Escogidos\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHoracio Quiroga | Jean Franco\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeign Language Study \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Horacio Quiroga's story \"Cuentos Escogidos\". The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context. Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), a celebrated writer of the short story, played a leading role in the Modernist movement that emerged in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. His stories combine something of Guy de Maupasant and Edgar Allan Poe, sharing Poe's interest in the strange and the abnormal but seldom straying from a realistic setting or psychological verisimilitude. This edition situates Quiroga in his literary and historical context and explores the central theme of his work - the conflict between man and environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoracio Quiroga (1878-1937) was born in Uruguay and is best known\u003cbr\u003efor short stories he wrote during the years he lived in two remote\u003cbr\u003eregions - the Chaco region that borders on Bolivia and Misiones, an\u003cbr\u003earea in northern Argentina that had once belonged to the Jesuit\u003cbr\u003emissions. He worked in both these rugged areas as a pioneer farmer,\u003cbr\u003ebattling with the fiercely hostile conditions that he later described\u003cbr\u003ein his terse stories. His published collections included \u003ci\u003eCuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte\u003c\/i\u003e (1917), \u003ci\u003eCuentos de la selva\u003c\/i\u003e (1918) and \u003ci\u003eAnaconda\u003c\/i\u003e (1921).\u003cbr\u003eAn\u003cbr\u003eacknowledged master of the short story form, Quiroga compares with\u003cbr\u003eKipling, particularly in his interest in animal protagonists, although\u003cbr\u003ethe stoical and unsentimental style is uniquely his own. Although he\u003cbr\u003euses some regional vocabulary, the stories are not difficult to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand for students with a grasp of basic grammar. They provide an\u003cbr\u003eexcellent starting point for those who are graduating from language\u003cbr\u003elearning to reading literary texts.\u003cbr\u003eShort stories included:\u003cbr\u003e- Nuestro primer cigarro\u003cbr\u003e- La insolación\u003cbr\u003e- El alambre de púa\u003cbr\u003e- Yaguaí \u003cbr\u003e- Anaconda\u003cbr\u003e- Los fabricantes de carbón\u003cbr\u003e- En la noche\u003cbr\u003e- Los pescadores de vigas\u003cbr\u003e- La voluntad\u003cbr\u003e- El simún\u003cbr\u003e- A la deriva\u003cbr\u003e- El hombre muerto\u003cbr\u003e- El yaciyateré\u003cbr\u003e- Tacuara-Mansión\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 January 1998\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBristol Classical Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781853994623\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e198\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8.64\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370611179660,"sku":"9781853994623","price":29.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781853994623","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}