Horacio Quiroga: una fuerte dosis de haschich Experiencia, drogas y autoficción

Abstract

This essay propose an approach to “El haschich”, written by Horacio Quiroga, included in the group called “drug stories” (as “El infierno artificial”). In this tale the search of altered states intersect a precise way of conceive writing as an evidence of the experience. Therefore, there is an oscillation between the cold objectivity of the scientific positivism and the auto-fictional first person. Unjustly displaced to the edges of the narrative corpus, these stories transfer meaningful vital experiences of the author, placed at the beginning of the twentieth century context (1900-1901), at the meetings of the Consistorio del Gay Saber.