About Historia de un amor turbio
Hysteria, neurosis, twisted family relationships… In Historia de un amor turbio (1908), Horacio Quiroga brings back subjects that were already present in his first short-story book, El crimen del otro, and attacks the bourgeois values of River Plate society at the turn of the 20th century. For this, he was accused —perhaps rightly so— of “subversive and immoral”.
This novel, one of the only two written by Quiroga, is the tale of a sordid love triangle between antihero Luis Rohán and sisters Mercedes and Eglé Elizalde. With autobiographical elements and adopting a blunt, simple narrative style, the author tells a story of jealousy and passion from the perspective of neurotic Rohán.
