censored and forgotten texts that reveal their most controversial facet

Each book that rescues the least known texts from A classic author You can illuminate your work with a different light; Those writings, sections of the canon due to ignorance or because the criteria that consolidated what is essential of that writer already seem sealed, sometimes turn the part we know of that person and show us another relief. TEXCLUDE POLITICS, EXTENDED & DISPOSED (Black horse) Exumma twenty -four pieces of Horacio Quirogabetween journalistic articles, stories and a particular review, with the plus that four of them were not listed in the lists of works by the author of Love and death love stories And many others who It had never been published in book format.

Horacio Tarcusin a solid prologue a is volume, warns that perhaps these texts baffle more than one reader of Quirogabut (or the best due to) that strangeness allows to intuit in some cases and reinforce in others, the characteristics of the author’s thought and the work.

Thus, the sympathy with the anarchismthe initial hope in the Russian revolutionthe complaint of the dehumanization In and cities, rejection of excess industrialization and al Working dirty and the criticism of the suffering caused by the wars, they emerge throughout the book.

The work opens with three notes published in Argentine worldowned by Editorial Haynes. In the first one, “a hunt”, Quiroga narrates the multiple murder of Guaycurú Indians in Misionesshot by a landowner and his henchmen, for having stolen corn of a plantation. The author, six years after that crime, recalls: “This did not happen in a distant country, however. This happened on November 25, 1911, half an hour from the international railway line that runs from Buenos Aires to the assumption.”

In another text published in that magazine, unpublished so far in book, Quiroga reflects and praises the cinema, which he calls “mute theater.” There he separates it from the “spoken theater”, that is, the traditional, and claims that the new art, which at that time exceeds 20 years since its creation, allows “a wonderfully enlightened story” and observe all the nuances of the expression of an actor, without being lost, thanks to the foreground, no detail, “minimum rictus of passion” and “minimum gaze of the gaze.”

Among rescues also appears a text published in La Fugaz Popular magazinedirected by Juan José de Soiza Reilly. “A love letter” shows a desperate teenager because a journalist who admires Write the most moving lines to your belovedwhich Cyrano de Bergerac, as Alejandro Ferrari points out, in charge of careful selection work and footnotes.

Articles published in The homemeanwhile, They collect the most answering veins of Quiroga. In “what cannot be said” attacks the alignment of the main means and Argentine political parties in the face of the consolidation of the Russian revolution. At that time The writer warm hopes in that process that had ended with the tsars And that, in theory, could open the passage to a truly democratic government without misery.

However, the author acknowledges that “the revolutions burn to their contact and only illuminate over time” and that “there has never been a way to contain a claiming explosion in the limits of incruent evolutions.”

In “Before the present time” Criticize the capitalist system And he affirms: “If the philosophical arguments prove that the world must leave crushing those who make it march, we deny that civilization.” Quiroga launches his anathema against “hoarders, speculators, irreproachable poisoners” and confesses that we are “ourselves, guilty and indifferent, who for a thousand years have been adulterating, poisoning, killing, human dignity.”

In “murderer”, meanwhile, a chapter of Men in war, From today forgotten writer Andreas Latzko, who tells the return of an Austrian soldier to his country, the racconto of victims of his bayonet, their eyes before dying and how that violence had made the protagonist meat.

In another tone, “an absolute failure” Describe the expectations and hardships before the setting of a play written by Quiroga himself. A day after the premiere only thirteen spectators attend And, deducted the expenses, they have a weight with thirty -five cents.

Another valuable rescue is composed by the duo of texts published in Insursa leftist magazine, conducted by a grouping of the same name. In “postwar propaganda” dissect the idealization of the last great waras World War I had met, and the attempt to sweeten for childhood the horrors planted in trenches and battlefields, where millions of men died due to rifle or cannon bullets or for the mustard gas.

Collaborations in Babel They also have their space. In this part, the story “The partner Ivan” appears, which It tells the love triangle between three anarchists, History inspired by Manuel Moscoso, editor of the legendary newspaper Ácrata The protest. Of The nationmeanwhile, a text is rescued where criticism of the West Because “Everything is hungry: more industry, more wealth, more territory,” and predicts a new war, as would happen from 1939.

“Nothing separates the peoples, but the State,” he remarks, with anarchist underlined. A negative libertarian accent towards the State that It did not imply unbalanced democracy, Since a government of those characteristics “is the only one that gives us hope, because it has what has no other: a heart.”

In “Imperial Nationalism” attack that side of the right and, without saying, criticizes Leopoldo Lugoneswith whom years before I had shared evenings and a friendship. This nationalism “thus awarded a calculated destination of oppression and vassalage towards the weakest countries, which we must impoverish, cancel, crush,” he affirms in that text of 1928, in an international context with the fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini consolidated since 1922 and a protonazism that, inspired by that, began to rise in Germany and that would reach power in 1933.

Quiroga points out that “freedom is a sacred privilege”, but “Who wants it for himself and disdains it for others is free just by chance.”

The articles of Literary lifeon the other hand, they include the story “A Night of Eden”, A fantastic story With the biblical eva of the protagonist, corporately as a mummy dressed in black that is reincarnated for a few hours to show how women of the time dress.

Other texts published in that medium They claim “primitive” art for their “primary freshness”They analyze Russian literature, Xul Solar’s work And the characteristics of the American short story, as well as the distance with Mussolini once again, after he pronounced that freedom was a “rotten corpse.”

Political texts, lost & scattered es A work as colorful as it for the admirer of Quiroga and his work. But it is also for those who wish to revive the sketches of anarchism present in the author, a feature he shared with other colleagues, always from a place of intellectual and humanistic honesty. On the other hand, His allusions to the cruelty of contemporary civilization resonate strongly. Beyond the author’s tragic history, and his stories full of vipers, riachos, clay, machetes, parrots and firearms, they beat in their texts an unclassifiable look on the world and its surroundings.

Political texts, lost & scatteredby Horacio Quiroga (black horse).