text: His two novels, Historia de un amor turbio and Pasado Amor, deal with the same theme that haunted the author in his personal life: love affairs between older men and teenage girls. In the first novel, Quiroga divided the action into three parts. In the first, a nine-year-old girl falls in love with an older man. In the second part, it is eight years later, and the man, who had noticed her affection, begins to woo her. The third part is the present tense of the novel, in which it has been ten years since the young girl left the man. In Pasado Amor history repeats itself: a grown man returns to a place after years of absence and falls for a young woman he had loved as a child.
  Knowing the personal history of Quiroga, the two novels feature some autobiographical components. For example, the protagonist in  "Historia de un Amor Turbio" is named Eglé (the name of Quiroga's daughter, whose classmate he later married). Also, in these novels, there is a great deal of emphasis on the opposition of the girls' parents, rejection that Quiroga had accepted as part of his life and that he always had to deal with.