The prose of Horacio Quiroga is deliberately simple, without any affectation, in order to lead his reader towards a calmly horrifying outcome. If this tale is considered one of the most famous of all South American fantasy literature, you still have to agree on the very notion of fantasy and that of Quiroga - without any roughness or scandal that reason would oppose - like a writer who lives even for a network of demonic forces and deafeningly disturbing.