He was appointed professor of Castilian in the British School of Buenos Aires in March 1903. In addition, his sister introduced him to pedagogy, and found him work as a teacher under contract on the board of examination for the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. In Buenos Aires, the artist reached professional maturity, which would reach its climax during his stays in the jungle. He crossed the Rio de la Plata in 1902 and went to live with Mary, 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 unfortunate circumstances of the homicide and deemed the incident accidental, releasing Quiroga after four days of detention. When the police arrived, Quiroga was arrested, interrogated and transferred to a correctional prison. Unexpectedly, while inspecting the weapon, he accidentally fired off a shot that hit Ferrando in the mouth, killing him instantly. Quiroga, worried about the safety of Ferrando, offered to check and clean the gun that was to be used. The fateful year of 1901 still held another horrible surprise for the writer: his friend Federico Ferrando, had received bad reviews from Germain Papini, a Montevideo journalist, and challenged him to a duel. In 1901, Quiroga published his first book, Los Arrecifes de Coral ("Coral Reefs"), but this achievement was overshadowed by the deaths of his two siblings, Prudencio and Pastora, who were victims of typhoid fever in Chaco. Upon returning to his country, Quiroga gathered his friends Federico Ferrando, Alberto Brignole, July Jaureche, Fernandez Saldaña, Jose Hasd and Asdrubal Delgado, and with them founded the Consistorio del Gay Saber (The Consistory of The Gay Science), a literary laboratory for their experimental writing where they found new ways to express themselves and their modernist goals. Consistory of the Gay Science and early works The trip was a failure and he came back sad and discouraged. With the money he received as inheritance he went on a four-month trip to Paris. In the same year, his stepfather committed suicide by shooting himself and Quiroga found the body. In his hometown he founded a magazine called Revista de Salto (1899). Sadly, the misunderstandings caused by the parents of the young girl, who disapproved of the relationship because Quiroga wasn't Jewish, reached a crisis and the parents separated them. As he continued studying, working with publications and Reform Magazine he improved his style and became well-known.ĭuring a 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: The Slaughter (1920) and A Season of Love. Armed with this background, he soon began to publish his poems in his hometown. The discovery of these authors moved him to dabble in various schools and styles: post-romanticism, symbolism and modernism. When he was 22, Quiroga put out his poetic feelers and discovered the poetry of Leopoldo Lugones and Edgar Allan Poe (he would eventually become great friends with Lugones). He described the man as a, "frank and passionate soldier of materialistic philosophy." He founded the Cycling Society of Salto and achieved the remarkable feat of uniting bicycle cities of Salto and Paysandu (120 km).ĭuring this time, he worked in a repair shop and it was under the influence of the owner's son that he became interested in philosophy. He demonstrated enormous interest in a variety of subjects, such as literature, chemistry, photography, mechanics, cycling and country life. He studied at the National College and also attended Polytechnic Institute of Montevideo for technical training. Quiroga finished school in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. Quiroga was baptized just about three months later in the parish of his birth town. Before Quiroga was two and a half months old, on March 14 of 1879 his father accidentally fired a gun he carried in his hand and died. At the time of his birth, his father worked for 18 years as head of the Argentine Vice-Consulate. Horacio Quiroga was born in the city of Salto in 1878 as the sixth child and second son of Prudencio Quiroga and Pastora Forteza, a middle-class family.
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