#EL HIJO HORACIO QUIROGA FULL#

He was appointed professor of Castilian at the British School of Buenos Aires in March 1903. His sister's husband also introduced him to pedagogy and found him work as a teacher under contract to the board of examination for the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.

#EL HIJO HORACIO QUIROGA FULL#

In Buenos Aires Quiroga the artist reached professional maturity, which would come to full fruition during his stays in the jungle. He crossed the Río de la Plata in 1902 and went to live with María, one of his sisters. Racked with grief and guilt over the death of his beloved friend, Quiroga dissolved The Consistory and moved from Uruguay to Argentina. The police investigated the circumstances of the homicide and deemed Ferrando's death an accident Quiroga was released after four days' detention. When the police arrived, Quiroga was arrested, interrogated and transferred to a correctional prison. While inspecting the weapon, he accidentally fired off a shot that hit Ferrando in the mouth, killing him instantly. Quiroga, anxious about his friend's safety, offered to check and clean the gun that was to be used.

His friend Federico Ferrando had received bad reviews from Germán Papini, a Montevideo journalist, and challenged him to a duel.

That fateful year held yet another shocking event in store for Quiroga. In 1901 Quiroga published his first book, Los Arrecifes de Coral ( Coral Reefs), but the achievement was overshadowed by the deaths of two of his siblings, Prudencio and Pastora, who were victims of typhoid fever in Chaco. On his return Quiroga gathered together his friends Federico Ferrando, Alberto Brignole, Julio Jaureche, Fernández Saldaña, José Hasda and Asdrúbal Delgado, and with them founded the Consistorio del Gay Saber ( The Consistory of The Gay Science), a literary laboratory for their experimental writing, in which they found new ways to express themselves and their modernist goals. With the money he received as inheritance he embarked on a four-month trip to Paris, which turned out to be a failure: he returned to Uruguay hungry and disheartened.Ĭonsistory of the Gay Science and early works In the same year, his stepfather committed suicide by shooting himself Quiroga witnessed the death. In his home town, he founded a magazine titled Revista de Salto (1899). However, the young girl's Jewish parents disapproved of the relationship on the grounds that Quiroga was a Gentile, and the couple were forced to separate.

While studying and working, he collaborated with publications such as La Revista and La Reforma, improving his style and making a name for himself.ĭuring the Carnival of 1898, the young poet met his first love, a girl named Mary Esther Jurkovski, who would inspire two of his most important works: Las sacrificadas (1920 The Slaughtered) and Una estación de amor (1912 A Season of Love). He soon began to publish his poems in his home town. This led him to dabble in various forms and styles of poetic expression himself: post-romanticism, symbolism and modernism. It was also around this time that he worked in a machinery repair shop under the influence of the owner's son he became interested in philosophy, describing himself as a 'forthright and passionate foot soldier of materialism.'Īt the age of 22, Quiroga became interested in poetry, discovering the work of Leopoldo Lugones, with whom he would later become great friends, and of Edgar Allan Poe. Around this time he founded the Salto Cycling Club and achieved the remarkable feat of cycling from his home town to Paysandú, a distance of 120 kilometres (74½ miles) From a very young age, he showed great interest in a variety of subjects and activities including literature, chemistry, photography, mechanics, cycling and country life. He studied at the National College and also attended the Polytechnic Institute of Montevideo for technical training. Quiroga finished school in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

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