Abstract
This essay deals with the short story "El almohadón de pluma" (1907), in which Horacio Quiroga makes use of some of the conventions of the Gothic novel, but in a physical environment different from that usually chosen by English-speaking writers. The plot of the story postulates a typical fantastic universe. It depicts a world which is, at the beginning, familiar to and susceptible of being known by the characters but, later, these are confronted by an event that does not fit their realistic framework. The next-to-last paragraph, which is discursive and does not pertain to the development of the plot, explains the whole story and, thus, destroys its construction based on "indices". In the end, nevertheless, it would seem the story subtly threatens the reader with the category of "the strange".Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (1947-), volume 66, 2, July-December 2018, is a semi-annual publication edited by El Colegio de México, Carretera Picacho Ajusco 20, Ampliación Fuentes del Pedregal, Tlalpan, C.P. 14110, Mexico City, Mexico, Tel. (55) 5449-3000, http://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/NRFH, nrfh@colmex.mx. Editor: Pedro Martín Butragueño. Assistant editors: Alejandro Rivas and Jesus Jorge Valenzuela. All Rights Reserved: 04-2015-070112341900-203, ISSN (print): 0185-0121, ISSN (electronic): 2448-6558, as registered with the National Copyright Institute. Typographical composition: El Atril Tipográfico. Person in charge of updating this issue: Perla Reyna Muñoz; date of last update: June 26, 2018.
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