Agua En El Mundo

Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga was born on December 31st, 1878 and die on February 19th, 1937. He was an Uruguayan playwright, poet and short story writer. Horacio Quiroga is considered the master of the Latin American stories, vivid prose, naturalist and modernist. His short stories portray nature in frightening and horrific traits, and as an enemy of man, for this reason people compared him with the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Horacio Quiroga was inspired by the British writer Rudyard Kipling, which is shown in his own “Jungle Tales”, a delightful exercise in fantasy divided into several stories featuring animals; his influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, too.

He lived in Argentina until his death; there he made the most of his stories. His first book is “Diario de viaje a París”, others of his books are: “Los arrecifes de coral”, “El crimen del otro”, “Los perseguidos”, “Historia de un amor turbio”, “Cuentos de la selva”, “Salvajes”, and others.

Horacio Quiroga, describes in his stories, the tragedy that haunts the miserable rural workers in the region, the dangers and sufferings to which they are exposed. Some people think that Quiroga’s works is due to his tragic life, if this is true or not, in fact, Horacio Quiroga has left for posterity some of the most terrible, brilliant and momentous pieces of American literature of the twentieth century.

Quiroga waded through his tragic life and suffered through nature to construct, what the critics considered “Autobiographical poetry”.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th 1809. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. This artist’s fame is due to his macabre tales and mystery stories. He is considered as one of the masters of the shorts stories and also as innovator of the gothic novel. His first book, “Tamerlane and other poems” with forty pages was published when he was eighteen years old.

Edgar Allan Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe’s personal life had a great influence in many of this writings, this is due to the many problems and loss he had when he was young. Some of their tales were: “The black cat”, “The cask of Amontillado”, “A descent in to the maelstrom”, “The facts in the case of M. Valdemar”, “The fall of the house of Usher”, “The gold-bug”, “and Hop-frog”, “The imp of the perverse”, “Ligeia”, “Morella”, “The mosque of the read death”, “The murders in the Rue morgue”, “The oval portrait”… and other tales and poetries.

Poe died on October 7th, 1849, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland,

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