text: Sensitive, excitable, given to impossible love, thwarted in his commercial enterprises but still highly creative, Quiroga waded through his tragic life and suffered through nature to construct, with the eyes of a careful observer, narrative work that critics considered "autobiographical poetry". Perhaps it is this "internal realism" or the "organic" nature of his writing that created the irresistible draw that Quiroga continues to have on readers.
  Legacy
  A species of South American snake, Apostolepis quirogai, is named in his honor.
  Selected works
  Coral Reefs (Los arrecifes de coral, poetry, 1901)
  The Crime of Another (El crimen del otro, stories, 1904)
  The Feather Pillow (El almohadón de plumas, short story, 1907)
  History of a Troubled Love (Historia de un amor turbio, novel, 1908)
  Stories of Love, Madness, and Death (Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte, stories, 1917)
  Jungle Tales (Cuentos de la selva, stories for children, 1918)
  The Wild (El salvaje, stories, 1920)
  The Slaughtered (Las sacrificadas, drama, 1920)
  Anaconda (stories, 1921)
  The Desert (El desierto, stories, 1924)
  The Beheaded Hen and Other Stories (La gallina degollada y otros cuentos, stories, 1925)
  Exiles (Los desterrados, stories, 1926)
  Past Love (Pasado amor, novel, 1929)
  Native Soil (Suelo natal, fourth grade reader book, 1931)
  Beyond (El más allá, stories, 1935)
  The Chair of Pain (El sillon del dolor, stories, 1937)