Pariah in the Desert The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga

Name: Pariah in the Desert The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga
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ISBN: 9781611487695

ISBN-10: 1611487692

ISBN-13: 9781611487695

Edition: 2016

Authors: Todd S. Garth

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This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic a lens elaborated in part by means of Quiroga s own disquisitions on the subject and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This lens serves to elucidate many evidently obscure and self-contradictory aspects of Quiroga s work and its relation to the context in which he lived. That context included the neo-colonial social and economic milieu of Argentina s fast-changing, immigrant-charged, increasingly materialistic…