Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte

It is clear that the biography of a writer ends up intervening in his work. In Quiroga's case, his apprenticeships in the jungle, the gruesome deaths, the temptation to suicide, and the helplessness of fatherhood pass to his arguments. Quiroga's stories, as Neuman says in the introduction, suggest that love and disease, good sense and madness, passion and remorse are just one step away. No attentive reader will be able to avoid the feeling of being faced with a formidable and powerful storyteller. Also included in this volume are the three stories that the author suppressed in the last edition.