Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte
Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (German: Stories of Love, Insanity and Death ) is a book by the Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga , the first edition of which was published in 1917 by Sociedad Cooperativa Editorial Limitada in Buenos Aires . The first publication contains 18 short stories and in subsequent editions the author himself made some changes to the stories. The subject of death plays an important role in most of the stories. At the express decision of the author, the original title is not provided with a comma. Eight of the stories appeared in German translation in 1986 by Suhrkamp Verlag as part of a collection of 22 works by the author. In addition, stories from Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte have been translated into English and French, among other things.
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The Spanish first edition contains the following short stories (the title of the German translation is given in brackets, if available):
- Una estación de amor
- Los ojos sombríos
- El solitario
- La muerte de Isolda
- El infierno artificial
- La gallina degollada ( The slaughtered chicken )
- Los buques suicidantes
- El almohadón de plumas ( The feather pillow )
- El perro rabioso
- A la deriva ( flotsam )
- La insolación ( In the sun glass )
- El alambre de púa ( The barbed wire )
- Los mensú ( lumberjack )
- Yaguaí ( Yaguai )
- Los pescadores de vigas
- La miel silvestre ( wild honey )
- Nuestro primer cigarro
- La meningitis y su sombra
Expenses (selection)
- Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte. "Buenos Aires" Socieded cooperativa editorial limitada, Buenos Aires 1917.
- Stories of love, madness and death. Translated from the Spanish by Wilfried Böhringer , Hans-Otto Dill , Astrid Schmitt and Erna Stoldt. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-518-01881-7 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 10, 2013, accessed October 14, 2019 .