He moved to the jungle and made the short story do what the novel would not. Uruguayan, then a settler in Misiones: farmer, film tinkerer, consul, a man who kept putting a household where the forest did not want one. Two hundred stories — snakes, fever, machinery that fails, talking animals for children, exiles who cannot go home. Poe was on the shelf. The Paraná was in the room. Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte is a title that could cover the lot. It is not the only book he left in the clearing.
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerteHoracio Quiroga