Echoes of the Border in Horacio Quiroga's Work

This book shows several little-addressed aspects of Horacio Quiroga’s work with great solidity and creativity. The author manages to reach extremely interesting and enlightening conclusions based on respect and attention towards previous critical works and, at the same time, a certain lack of modesty or complacency in discussing some of its postulates. The concept of "border" articulates the analysis of various aspects of Quiroga's work throughout the book, also dialoguing with the notion of transculturation coined by Ángel Rama. The author clarifies from the beginning that he is not referring to the “denotative” but rather the “constitutive” border of Quiroga’s work. Although this book is not a popular text, since its format is mainly academic, the reading is not cryptic for non-specialized audiences. It achieves the difficult goal of providing a fresh perspective on an author about whom much has been written and analysed.