Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga was named Edgar Allan Poe of Latin America because of similarities that were sought between. He was known for his obsession over the dead and the violence not only in which occurred where he lived but he was interested in other places as well. Like Edgar Allen Poe, his jobs only resurfaced to soft tones and themes. Not only were they involved in the same theme but they were also one of the first writers of literature in that genre. In “El Conductor del rapido”, written by Horacio Quiroga from the years 1905-1925, 108 conductors have contracted or have been attacked with a mental disorder in which they couldn’t live out the rest of their lives. A “manicomio” was a place in which those with mental problems could be checked into for evaluation and severe mental help. Its ironic that the mental hospital was there to help others in which case it only made them more insane and didn’t help them.  It seems to be that the narrator in this story has a mental condition just like the ones hes explaining. Its also possible that maybe the story is a dream and its not reality. During him actually conducting the train and at the same time being in his dream about the story. He started to lose control of the train and go extremely fast which made him eventually lose control.


( I really liked this story and it made me think of the Rosenhan Study!)

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