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This is the page for daily questions (in English) for Lesson 24. XXth
Century, Post-modernism (continued): Quiroga, Vallejo.
24-1. How does the author's personality appear in this work?
24-2. What important facts do we know about the author's life?
24-3. What is the author's style like?
24-4. In what way is Quiroga different from surrealist writers?
24-5. Explain the influence of Poe and Kipling in the works of Quiroga.
24-6. How does nature appear in the story "The Son"?
24-7. What premonitions of the outcome do we see in the story?
24-8. Explain the meaning of the phrase "caza de pelo."
24-9. What hallucinations had the father experienced earlier, and what
significance does this have in the story?
24-10. Explain the meaning of the phrase "At that moment, not far
away, a shot rings out".
24-11. What autobiographic elements does Horacio Quiroga's story "The
Son" have?
24-12. At the conclusion of the story "The Son" by Horacio
Quiroga, has rationality or irrationality triumphed? Explain.
24-13. What happens when the father "reaches his limit"?
24-14. Did you like this story, and why?
24-15. Compare nature in the works of the roman tics and that of Quiroga.
24-16. Assume you are a friend of the father in the story and you see
him return at the end of the story. What would you do and say?
Lesson
24B. César Vallejo
24-20. How does the author's personality appear in this work?
24-21. What important facts do we know about the author's life?
24-22. What is the style of Vallejo's poems?
24-23. Explain the significance of Vallejo's ethnic origin, and the
fact that the citizens of Lima called him "the Cholo Vallejo".
24-24. Explain the meaning of the phrase "I was born on a day when
God was sick, very sick".
24-25. Compare the theme of suffering in the work of José Asunción
Silva and that of Vallejo.
24-26. What is the structure of the poem "Yokes"?
24-27. Did you like the poem "Life's gravest moment", and
why? What has been the gravest moment in your life?
24-28. Did you like the poem "The black heralds", and why?
Have you had black heralds in your life?