Quiroga, Horacio

Japanese: キロガ（英語表記）Quiroga， Horacio

Born: December 31, 1878, Sarthe
[Died] February 19, 1937. Buenos Aires. Uruguayan novelist. Influenced by the "Modernist" and EA Pau, he began writing poetry and short stories. He joined an expedition to the Misiones region in northeastern Argentina, and spent most of his life thereafter in this tropical frontier. He had a strong interest in people in extreme situations and abnormal environments, and published many short stories filled with dramatic tension while working in the fields, portraying people who fight, live, and are defeated by the overwhelming forces of nature that he found in this frontier. In his later years, he suffered from cancer and committed suicide in solitude. His representative works include Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (1917), El salvaje (The Wild Man) (20), Anaconda (21), and Los desterrados (The Exiled Men) (26).

Quiroga
Quiroga, Juan Facundo

[Born] 1793
[Died] 1835
Argentine politician. Leader of the gauchos in the western interior. In 1823, he rebelled against the liberal reforms of B. Rivadavia, the Minister of the Interior of the Buenos Aires Provincial Government. He rose to power as dictator of the province of Córdoba, and supported J. Rosas until his assassination in 1835.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information

Japanese:

[生]1878.12.31. サルト
[没]1937.2.19. ブエノスアイレス
ウルグアイの小説家。「近代派」と E.A.ポーの影響下に詩，短編の創作を開始。アルゼンチン北東部のミシオネス地方への探検に加わり，以後生涯の大半をこの熱帯性辺境で過した。極限状況，異常な環境におかれた人間に強烈な関心を寄せ，この辺境に見出した圧倒的な自然の力と戦い，生き，敗れていく人間像のなかの一人として，みずからも耕作にたずさわりながら，ドラマチックな緊張感に満ちた数多くの短編小説を発表。晩年は癌を病み，孤独のうちに自殺。代表作『愛と狂気と死の短編集』 Cuentos de amor，de locura y de muerte (1917) ，『野性の男』 El salvaje (20) ，『アナコンダ』 Anaconda (21) ，『追放された人々』 Los desterrados (26) 。