Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) Cree en un maestro – Poe, Maupassant, Kipling, Chejov – como en Dios mismo. Cree que su arte es una cima inaccesible. No sueñes en domarla. Cuando puedas hacerlo, lo conseguirás sin saberlo tú mismo. Resiste cuanto puedas a la imitación, pero imita si el influjo es demasiado fuerte. Más que ninguna […]

via Decálogo del perfecto cuentista, de Horacio Quiroga — Poecraft Hyde

Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions 1 of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System 2 fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message… . 3 Later in Berlin, down in the cellar among fever-dreams with shit leaking out of […]

via No knightly hero | Gravity’s Rainbow, annotations and illustrations for page 364 — Biblioklept

Horacio Quiroga was a very weird, very strange man.

From his Wikipedia entry:

He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.

He was also quite a fine writer who has yet to have a compendium of his works translated to English. This blog is trying to remedy the situation.

Sophie Dahl reminisces about her grandfather, the fabled storyteller (and ace fighter pilot) Roald Dahl, in this article for The Guardian.

Crash by J.G. Ballard. 1994 trade paperback by Noonday (FS&G). Cover design by Michael Ian Kaye and Melissa Hayden. I had a redneckish college roommate who was way into cars, so I encouraged him to watch Cronenberg’s adaptation of Crash with me, which he did. He was a nice guy. He watched all of it with me and […]

via Three Books — Biblioklept