Used book – Tales of Love, Madness and Death, Horacio Quiroga, Frédéric Chambert

In these solidly constructed narratives, the disquieting strangeness of each detail, the simple - yet absolute - horror, and the realism feed a fantastic element as spectacular as it is ambiguous; a fantastic element sometimes humorous, plausible, yet opaque, like the monstrosity of childhood, the thundering force of a river in flood, the inclemency of the virgin forest and tropical noons, or the delirium of man, the delirium of love or the madness of death.