Stories of Love, Madness and Death: read in Spanish (A2)
Read five stories from Horacio Quiroga’s Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte retold in simple Spanish: a MovaReader adaptation for level A2, with word translation.
Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (adaptación, Horacio Quiroga)
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What you'll learn
Pretérito indefinido and imperfecto in narration, the pluperfect (había vaciado, se había sacado), the subjunctive after pedir que and como si (que matara, como si fuera), se le for things that happen to someone (la voz se le rompió), vocabulary of illness, the jungle, the river and animals
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of five of the eighteen stories in Horacio Quiroga’s Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917), retold in simple Spanish in 14 chapters: El almohadón de pluma, La gallina degollada, A la deriva, La insolación and La miel silvestre. A young bride falls ill in a cold white house, a couple turns against each other over their four sick sons, a man bitten by a snake drifts down the Paraná, five dogs sense death coming for their master in the Chaco, and a city accountant looks for adventure in the jungle of Misiones. Level A2 suits learners who know the past tenses: sentences of about 8 words, the pretérito indefinido and imperfecto, and plenty of dialogue. About 8,000 words.
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