About El crimen del otro
Published in 1904, El crimen del otro includes twelve short stories, with subjects ranging from historical exoticism (“La princesa bizantina”), to inappropriate relationships (“Idilio”), and bestiality (“Historia de Estilicón”). Quiroga’s prose oscillates between a concise, rational style, and decadent, ostentatious sentences, a constant homage to his Romantic forefathers.
Horacio Quiroga
The uncontested master of modern Latin American narrative, Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay, 1878) draws his influences from modernist giants, such as Rubén Darío, and romantic and naturalist behemoths, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte, his most acclaimed work, includes “La gallina degollada” and “El amohadón de plumas”, classics of Spanish horror literature.
