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  <title><![CDATA[The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>Horacio Quiroga&amp;#8217;s short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him. They span many fiction genres&amp;#8212;jungle tale, Gothic horror story, psychological study, morality tale&amp;#8212;and possess a universality that has made him a classic Latin American writer.&lt;br&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Horacio Quiroga]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Horacio Quiroga's fiction is quite tame compared to his tragic life. His father dies from an accidental gunshot wound returning from a hunting trip. As a young man teaching his best friend how to use a gun in preparation for a duel he accidentally kills him. His first wife commits suicide with arsen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63931629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It isn't often I discover a collection of horror stories that trills me as much as this ultra-morbid book by Horacio Quiroga. The publisher, the University of Wisconsin Press, appropriately compares Quiroga to Poe, Kipling, and Jack London--though a horror reference even more apt than Poe, I think, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21443414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark, deeply frightening, and gorgeous, Horacio Quiroga is a master of the macabre. One of my all-time favorites.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quiroga can be best summed up with: &quot;Irony and a touch of gore&quot;. I wouldn't say his stories are too much to stomach, as their message is much stronger than that, but they are somewhat controversial (i.e., I got in trouble for teaching his readings to my Spanish high school students in '99!...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The edgar allen poe of latin american takes you to a strange place where snakes are at war in the jungle, homoerotic thoughts cause men to go mad and of course death is always around the corner.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Along with Rulfo's Burning Plain, this one of my favorite collections of Latin American short stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I received this book from my mother many years ago. No doubt she meant to terrify me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Una de las narrativas de los cursos de literatura en la secundaria y universidad]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imaginatively grotesque, sometimes entertaining, but not much else.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several highly memorable stories. &quot;Anaconda&quot; is brilliant.]]></body>
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