Horacio Quiroga Research Paper

The Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga was born on New Year 's Eve in 1878. His mother was Prudencio Quiroga and his father Pastora Forteza Quiroga who died March 14, 1879 before he was two and a half months old. His father accidentally fired a gun and shot himself during a hunting trip. The tragedies continue to flow, his step father committed suicide in 1899. In 1901 Horacio published his first collection of poems and within the next 30 years he published over 200 dark stories. Horacio struggled with severe depression and terminal cancer with in his life. Tragedy just continued throughout Horacio life. Despite his achievements that same year his two brothers Prudencio and Pastora, were victims of typhoid fever and pasted away. That same

Horacio moved to his beloved jungle in 1906, where he brought a farm. Quiroga fell in love with one of his teenage students, Ana María Cires, which he dedicated his first novel too entitled, History of a Troubled Love. The couple clashed a lot causing them to have arguments frequently, which made Ana very depressed. July 10th, 1909 he published a short story called "The Decapitated Chicken”. “The Decapitated Chicken" is about Four sons who are all sicken and are reduced to a state of idiocy because of congenital disease. They later have a daughter who is healthy and normal, but is butchered by her four brothers. The ‘’Decapitated Chicken" illustrates how Quiroga 's essential themes and narrative technique work together to produce the greatest possible effect. Horacio Quiroga also published another short story in 1910 called “Drifted”. “Drifted” was a bought a man who was bitten by a snake and to travel 5 hours on canoe just to seek medical help, only to die just 2 hours away from Tacuru-Pacu. The poison had spread through his body. One day after a violent fight with the writer, she consumed a fatal dose of poison called Mercury (II) chloride. Although the poison did not kill her instantly; instead she was forced to endure terrible agony for eight days before finally dying in her husband 's arms on December 14,