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Author
Horacio Quiroga
Level
B2
Original
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte · 1917
Length
~46k words
Reading time
~4 h
Translation
English, sentence by sentence

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ES

Era el martes de carnaval.

Nébel acababa de entrar en el corso, ya al oscurecer, y mientras deshacía un paquete de serpentinas, miró al carruaje de delante.

Extrañado de una cara que no había visto la tarde anterior, preguntó a sus compañeros:

—¿Quién es?

EN

It was Shrove Tuesday.

Nébel had just entered the corso, already at dusk, and while unwrapping a package of streamers, he looked at the carriage ahead.

Surprised by a face he had not seen the previous afternoon, he asked his companions:

"Who is she?"

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About Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte

Horacio Quiroga's best-known collection: stories of love, madness and death, many of them set in the forest of Misiones — a feather pillow with a secret, a man bitten by a snake drifting down the Paraná in his canoe. Quiroga admired Poe, and it shows.

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