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Echoes of the Border in Horacio Quiroga’s Work

By: Wilson Alves-Bezerra

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This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga's work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.

In this book, the author initially proposes a critical review of the narrative work of Uruguayan-Argentine short story writer Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) from the perspective…

In this book, the author initially proposes a critical review of the narrative work of Uruguayan-Argentine short story writer Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) from the perspective of the category of the border, understood as the discourse of the establishment of Argentine borders constituted throughout the 19th century. Thus, the book consists of verifying how this discourse reverberates in Quiroga’s literary work. To this end, the author draws on critic Ángel Rama’s reflections on transculturation, discussing and appropriating, in a different light, the three spheres of analysis proposed in his model: linguistic, literary, and ideological. This book grants a status to Quiroga’s work based on its form, in order to avoid limiting his jungle tales to regionalist or realist readings.

Wilson Alves-Bezerra (1977) is the most important researcher of Horacio Quiroga in his country. He is the author of A Narrative Biography of Horacio Quiroga, the Lone Anarchist (Cambridge Scholars, 2023), the unique and definitive biography in English of the Uruguayan-Argentinian short story writer. He has translated some of Quiroga’s books into Portuguese, such as Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte and Cuentos de la Selva. He is also the translator of Latin American authors, such as Luis Gusmán, Sergio Bizzio and Alfonsina Storni. He has had literary works published in Portugal, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. His book Vertigens (2015) has received the Brazilian Book Chamber Award. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from State University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Master’s in Hispanic American Literature from the University of São Paulo, both Brazil. He is an associate professor at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-0364-5279-4
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-5279-7
Date of Publication: 2025-08-15

Ebook

ISBN: 1-0364-5280-8
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-5280-3
Date of Publication: 2025-08-15

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, Sociology

Pages: 165

Subject Codes:

BIC: D, JFSL4, DSBH
THEMA: D(5PB-US-H), JBSL, DSBJ, DSBH

Pages: 165

"This book shows several little-addressed aspects of Horacio Quiroga’s work with great solidity and creativity. The author manages to reach extremely interesting and enlightening conclusions based on respect and attention towards previous critical works and, at the same time, a certain lack of modesty or complacency in discussing some of its postulates. The concept of "border" articulates the analysis of various aspects of Quiroga's work throughout the book, also dialoguing with the notion of transculturation coined by Ángel Rama. The author clarifies from the beginning that he is not referring to the “denotative” but rather the “constitutive” border of Quiroga’s work. Although this book is not a popular text, since its format is mainly academic, the reading is not cryptic for non-specialized audiences. It achieves the difficult goal of providing a fresh perspective on an author about whom much has been written and analysed."
- Mariana Figueroa Dacasto La Diaria, Uruguay

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