Two psychiatric illnesses in the narrative of Horacio Quiroga.
(Salto, Uruguay 31.12.1878 - Buenos Aires, Argentina 19.02.1937)
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One of the attributes of Chiroguian works is their objectivity. The description of places, human types and situations are adjusted to the reality lived by the writer. This was emphasized by his best critic, Emir Rodríguez Monegal {prologue to "Horacio Quiroga. Selección de cuentos", Mdeo. 1966: 28}. He left about 200 stories (only about 40 of which Rodríguez Monegal considers "salvageable") in which he made "a handling of the materials with absolute control.... {an} overcoming of the emotional adolescence ... {an} abandonment of subjectivity". His life in the jungle of the Misiones region allowed him to know atrocious and pathetic circumstances that he left captured in his narrations. Quiroga first came into contact with the missionary jungle environment in 1903, as a photographer for the expedition led by the writer Leopoldo Lugones to the Jesuit ruins. He then settled as a cotton producer in the Chaco in 1905, an unsuccessful industry, returning to Buenos Aires where he had settled. He returned to Misiones to live in San Ignacio in 1910 as a landowner, until a new return to Buenos Aires in 1915. Since then he will only return to the jungle intermittently.
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(1) “Los guantes de goma” apareció en libro en la “Biblioteca Rodó” en la colección quiroguiana editada por Claudio García (“Horacio Quiroga. Cuentos”, Mdeo., 1945, volumen XII); lo hemos tomado de la colección editada por ARCA “Horacio Quiroga. Obras inéditas y desconocidas” ( Mdeo., 1968, Cuentos, volumen IV, 1905-1910). “Los destiladores de naranjas” integró el volumen “Los desterrados. Cuentos” (Bs.As., Ed. Babel, 1926); lo hemos recogido de la “Selección de cuentos” de Horacio Quiroga (ob.cit., Mdeo., Biblioteca Artigas, 1966, volumen 102: 218).
(2) CIE-10, O.M.S, Ginebra, 1992, volumen 1º (versión española, O.P.S, 1995, publicación científica 554, volumen 1º).
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