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Fiction / Latin America

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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories Horacio Quiroga With an introduction by Jean Franco Selected and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Illustrated by Ed Lindlof The Americas, Ilan Stavans, Series Editor, Irene Vilar, Associate Editor "Quiroga's stories are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects, and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic."—New Yorker Horacio Quiroga's short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him. They span many fiction genres-jungle tale, Gothic horror story, psychological study, morality tale-and possess a universality that has made him a classic Latin American writer.  Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) was a master storyteller, author of Latin American fiction that has been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and London. His own life from his birth in Uruguay to his suicide in Argentina was filled with adventure, tragedy, and violence.   For more information call our marketing department at 608-263-0734 or e-mail uwiscpress@uwpress.wisc.edu

June 2004 166 pp.  6 x 9 ISBN 0-299-19834-0 Paper $15.95 t To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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