People from Salto Department - People from Salto (City), Horacio Quiroga, Luis Alberto Surez, Edinson Cavani, Rafael Addiego Bruno (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Salto (City), Horacio Quiroga, Luis Alberto Surez, Edinson Cavani, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Gonzalo de Los Santos, Alfeo Brum, Enrique Amorim, Heber Viera. Excerpt: Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet and (above all) short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel Garca Mrquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortzar. Horacio Quiroga was born in Salto, Uruguay in 1878 as the sixth child to a middle class family. At the time of his birth, his father worked for eighteen years as head of the Vice-Consulate Argentine Break. Before Quiroga was two and half months old, on March 14th of 1879 his father accidentally fired a gun he carried in his hand and died. Quiroga was baptized just about 3 months later in the parish of his birth town. His national origin is not entirely clear, having many conflicting reports about whether, besides baptism, he was registered as a citizen of Argentina in Uruguay, or not. It is expressed in several sources that his birth was registered in the Consulate of Argentina which operated in that city and by the fact his father exercising the office of consul of that country. Quiroga finished school in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. He studied at the National College and also attended Polytechnic Institute of Montevideo for technical training. He showed enormous interest in a variety of subjects, such as literature, chemistry, photography, mechanics, cycling and country life. He foun... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=994494