Perpetual foreigness Stateless men in Quiroga’s works

Abstract

This article presents Quiroga as a contemporary writer, no longer as a regionalist, who offers the forest as an extreme and inevitable backdrop against which men struggle to survive, far from the origins, community and that which, in words of the heroes, became the homeland. Nature is the only space that allows for a place in the world since society and culture expel the individual. In this sense, Quiroga’s short stories establish a dialogue and dissent with the civilizing projects upon which our young nations were based. In Quiroga’s stories strange foreign characters turn up, whose heterogeneous names signal a dissent with the collective fantasy of progress. The individual is on the borders of rebellion and defeat