#horacio quiroga

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*Originally published in Spanish with the title "El almohadón de plumas"

#short stories #short story #uruguayan literature #spanish language literature #20th century literature #the feather pillow #el almohadón de plumas #horacio quiroga #book polls #have you read this short fiction? #completed polls

[leer-reading-lire]

Suggestions for your first classic

#matilda #roald dahl #little women #louisa may alcott #the secret garden #frances hodgson burnett #murder on the orient express #agatha christie #pride and prejudice #jane austen #jungle tales #horacio quiroga #anne of green gables #l.m. montgomery #we have always lived in the castle #shirley jackson #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #the chronicles of narnia #c.s. lewis #classic books #classic literature #classics #books and reading #leerreadinglire #book recommendations #book recs #booklr

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El almohadón de plumas (The feather pillow) (Horacio Quiroga) "The quiet, fragile happiness between Alicia and her aloof but still deeply in love husband Jordan is cut short when, just three months after their wedding, she mysteriously falls deathly ill. Jordan keeps bringing doctors to check on her, but to no avail: No doctor can answer why this young woman is suddenly and visibly dying with every night that passes.

Saying anything more would spoil the plot twist, so here's the Project Gutenberg link

SPOILERS BELOW CUT"

Ant Colony (From Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls) (Alissa Nutting) "When space on earth became very limited, it was declared all people had to host another organism on or inside of their bodies. Many people chose something noninvasive, such as barnacles or wig-voles. Some women had breast operations that allowed them to accommodate small aquatic life within implants. But because I was already perfectly-breasted (and, admittedly, vain) I sought out a doctor who, for several thousands of dollars, drilled holes into my bones to make room for an ant colony."

It is with that paragraph that begins Ant Colony, a short story published as part of the book Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, the debut short story collection of author Alissa Nutting. Beside the obvious Corruption theme of its very premise, the rest of the story also touches on another, often overlooked element of this Entity: Twisted, unhealthy love."

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

Feather Pillow, cont.: Not only are bloodsucking parasites well within the Corruption's domain, but it should also be noted that a common motif across those who fall victim to this particular entity is a desire for love or to connect with others, which the Entity takes advantage of. Alicia's wish for 'childish fancies', her resigned frustration with her husband's unaffectionate attitude and her seemingly complete lack of other human relationships besides said husband would make her fit right in with that pattern. And in a TMA context, the bug growing that impossibly big and yet no one being able to notice it until it was too late could easily be explained as being due to both the bug and the circumstances around its existence being supernatural in nature.

Ant Colony, cont.: The plot twist of the story is that the ants hadn't begun eating the nameless narrator alive from within because the queen ant hated her, as the other doctors she talks to had theorized, but because the doctor who she had paid to implant the ants into her bones, who had already been established as having a creepy crush on her, had been purposely manipulating things in order to get the ants to assimilate her consciousness and eat her whole from the very beginning, all so that he could get the ant colony to inhabit him next because, as he puts it: "When you all crawl inside of me, we will all be one forever."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #El almohadón de plumas #The feather pillow #Horacio Quiroga #Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls #Ant Colony #Alissa Nutting

[embystarr-blog]

If you've been enjoying the horrors of Dracula, may I present to you another of my favorite authors of the genre: Horacio Quiroga.

I read his disturbing short stories when I was 12 and I've not been the same afterwards. He, Poe and Stoker ignited my love for terrifying tales with incredible characters, and I'm very happy about it.

Here's one of my favorite short stories by this amazing writer.

#dracula daily #writers #horacio Quiroga #the feather pillow #vampires can take many forms

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Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte - Horacio Quiroga

Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte es un libro de cuentos de Horacio Quiroga publicado en 1917 por la "Sociedad Cooperativa Editorial Limitada" de Buenos Aires. La primera publicación incluye 18 relatos y en siguientes ediciones el propio autor realiza algunas modificaciones en los cuentos y excluye Los ojos sombríos, El infierno artificial y El perro rabioso. El tema de la muerte resalta en la mayoría de los relatos. Otro tema abordado es la deshumanización del hombre que cede su voluntad a los instintos más primitivos. Siguiendo estos impulsos es que surgen los problemas y la trama de varios cuentos. Por decisión expresa del autor, el título no lleva coma.

Lee más sobre este libro en Wikipedia.

Stories of Love, Madness, and Death - Horacio Quiroga

Stories of Love, Madness, and Death is a book of short stories by Horacio Quiroga published in 1917 by the Sociedad Cooperativa Editorial Limitada of Buenos Aires. The first publication includes 18 stories and, in subsequent editions, the author himself makes some modifications to the stories and excludes three of them. The theme of death stands out in most stories. Another theme addressed is the dehumanization of man who yields his will to his most primitive instincts. Following these impulses is where the problems and the plot of several stories arise.

Read more about the author on Wikipedia.

#latam classic lit works #literature #literatura #Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte #Horacio Quiroga #wtf nunca me di cuenta que no tenia coma

[poetfromthevoid]

Will you still love me when I heal and have no more delirium?

Horacio Quiroga, La meningitis y su sombra (1917)

#horacio quiroga #horror books #latin america #literature #dark academia #favorite quotes #madness #on love

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Just realizing that I did once write a fairytale story (a Once Upon a Time fanfic, not a very good one because my English was decidedly poorer than it is now, yes, I know, not that easy to believe considering the grammar of some of my posts, but it is the truth), but it didn't completely register as such because I was really basing it on Horacio Quiroga's Meningitis and its Shadow.

And that made me realize what a peculiar and weird little story it is. If you pick Quiroga's tales of love of madness and of death (not only those compiled in the book of that name, but in general), most of it comes across as Gothic Horror, more in the line of Victorian Ghost Stories than true Poe -Quiroga was called the Latin American Edgar Allan Poe, but he held one guiding principle of his writing that Edgar Allan Poe sorely lacked, and that was that what is good, it's twice as better if short. The Feather Pillow is deservedly famous for the creation of the Gothic atmosphere and the development of the main couple's tortured relationship with just a few strokes, and for the sudden turn in the end from Gothic horror to plain physical slasher-but-not-so horror. Blonde, angelic, and shy, the stony character of her husband froze her childish bridal fancies is still to me one of the best openings I have read for a short story, in which so much is established with so few words.

Other tales of Quiroga, like Drift Away and The Son are great captures of what dread feels like, while stories like The Slaughtered Hen are pure, unadultered disgusting slasher horror.

But what is so peculiar about Meningitis and its Shadow is that it is a fairytale wrapped in Gothic Horror; the young daughter of a wealthy family falls ill every night, deep in a delirium, where she recognizes no one and wants no one, except for a middle class guy she met once as an acquaintance of her brother. She calls for him, night after night, until her family gives in, and he's reluctantly summoned. And so the poor guy spends night after night by the bedside of this young woman, that in the depth of her delirium seems to know him well and love him, but who during the day barely seems to recognize him. Until one night in her delirium she asks him "and when I no longer have a fever, will you still love me?" The guy naturally experiences all of this as unsettling and surreal, as he spends his every night falling in love with her and thinking he's running mad. But the story has a happy ending, and none of the scientific explanations given by the doctors can really explain what happened. It's as if the story itself has broken the boundaries of its genre, and it's precisely its reaching into fairytale that contributes to the sense of uneasiness somehow. IDK, I find it fascinating.

#Horacio Quiroga #tales of love of madness and of death

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#fotitospacurartudepresion #meme #gatito #it #el resplandor #stephen king #horacio quiroga #miedo

[thisisnotjuli]

ya se que es un cliché que les argentinos nos robamos todo de uruguay y lo reclamamos como nuestro. pero recién leí algo de Horacio Quiroga y decía que era uruguayo y me quedé mirando el celular 15 segundos pensando "no, eso está mal, es argentino" hasta que me acordé que no lmao no es argentino es uruguayo

#tipo. no es chiste genuinamente me olvidé #en mi defensa. es argentino-adyacente #*les uruguayos me cagan a piñas* #arg tag #Uruguay #argentina #Horacio Quiroga #mine

[elquecuentacuentos]

¿Y cuándo sane y no tenga más delirio… ¿me querrás todavía?

-María Elvira Funes (La meningitis y su sombra, Horacio Quiroga).

#frases #frases de libros #frases de novelas #novelas #frases de cuentos #cuentos #cuentacuentos #relatos #cuentos cortos #horacio quiroga #la miningitis y su sombra #delirio

[dariomekler]

Adrift

Illustration for story by Horacio Quiroga

Animated Acrylics

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#adrift #sea #serpent #snake #boat #water #poison #acrylics #artwork #blue #death #waves #Horacio Quiroga #literature #horror literature #animated horror #animated art #argentinian literature #dariomekler #Illustration

[leer-reading-lire]

A little late, but Happy #WorldBookDay!!!! Show me your books 📚 ✨️ ✨️ ✨️

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Show me the most beautiful book on your shelf or your favourite book or your oldest book or all of them. Let's show our books some love. Use the tag #ilovemybooks so I can see all your gorgeous books 📚

Here are some of my beautiful books:

Three of my favourite books:

And some of my oldest (childhood) books:

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#ilovemybooks #book photos #book photo challenge #books #booklr #dracula #bram stoker #the lord of the rings #j.r.r. tolkien #angela carter #alexandre dumas #marc levy #horacio quiroga #little women #louisa may alcott #my books #leerreadinglire #edward gorey #the fellowship of the ring #monster she wrote

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The Cruel Empress (Lene Kaaberbol) "When Hay Lin receives an ancient lantern from one of her grandmother's friends, strange things begin to happen. She wanders into a store and finds a magical mirror, and then hears a mysterious call for help.

The other Guardians of the Veil are worried. Together, they try to find out who is trying to contact Hay Lin. To solve the mystery, the Guardians travel through a portal to a city where they face a cruel empress…and an unfulfilled promise. " In this book, the W.I.T.C.H girls fight the titular Cruel Empress who uses control over insects to rule over people with an iron fist. So they fight a Corruption avatar essentially."

El almohadón de plumas (The feather pillow) (Horacio Quiroga) "The quiet, fragile happiness between Alicia and her aloof but still deeply in love husband Jordan is cut short when, just three months after their wedding, she mysteriously falls deathly ill. Jordan keeps bringing doctors to check on her, but to no avail: No doctor can answer why this young woman is suddenly and visibly dying with every night that passes.

Saying anything more would spoil the plot twist, so here's the Project Gutenberg link

SPOILERS BELOW CUT"

Not only are bloodsucking parasites well within the Corruption's domain, but it should also be noted that a common motif across those who fall victim to this particular entity is a desire for love or to connect with others, which the Entity takes advantage of. Alicia's wish for 'childish fancies', her resigned frustration with her husband's unaffectionate attitude and her seemingly complete lack of other human relationships besides said husband would make her fit right in with that pattern. And in a TMA context, the bug growing that impossibly big and yet no one being able to notice it until it was too late could easily be explained as being due to both the bug and the circumstances around its existence being supernatural in nature.

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Cruel Empress #w.i.t.c.h. #Lene Kaaberbol #El almohadón de plumas #The feather pillow #Horacio Quiroga

[thecottoncandyprostitutes]

"Así, provisto de esta sensibilidad un poco anormal, no es de extrañar mi asiduidad al cine, y que las más de las veces salga de él mareado. En ciertos momentos he llegado a vivir dos vidas distintas: una durante el día, en mi oficina y el ambiente normal de Buenos Aires, y la otra de noche, que se prolonga hasta el amanecer. Porque sueño, sueño siempre." El vampiro, Horacio Quiroga

#horacio quiroga

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Cuentos de la selva - Horacio Quiroga

Cuentos de la selva es un libro de cuentos para niños del escritor uruguayo Horacio Quiroga, publicado en 1918 en Buenos Aires. Cuenta con historias clásicas como El paso del Yabebirí y Anaconda. Quiroga quiso inventar un lenguaje selvático de América, en contraposición de la tendencia del común de los escritores a imitar las modas literarias de Europa.

Lee más sobre este libro en Wikipedia.

Jungle Tales - Horacio Quiroga

Jungle Tales is a book of children's stories by the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, published in 1918 in Buenos Aires. It features classic stories such as El paso del Yabebirí and Anaconda. Quiroga wanted to invent a jungle language of America, in contrast to the tendency of ordinary writers to imitate the literary fashions of Europe.

Read more about Quiroga on Wikipedia.

#latam classic lit works #literature #literatura #Cuentos de la selva #Horacio Quiroga

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"El Almohadón de Plumas" Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte- Horacio Quiroga

Sin duda un muy buen libro.

#horacio quiroga #el almohadón de plumas