Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero Wars and within the interlinking currents of specifically national and wider Western literary and cultural traditions. Later sections offer detailed analyses of the short stories, El Llano en llamas, the novel Pedro Páramo, the novella El gallo de oro and of Rulfo's substantial photographic work, the importance of which has only recently been grasped. Throughout the study the focus is to bring into a productive dialogue the different dimensions of Rulfo's texts: the materiality of his hauntingly strange poetic prose, the disturbing instability of meaning and identity, the alienation caused by violence and injustice.
Steven Boldy is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge.
OBRAS RELACIONADAS TEMÁTICA O FORMALMENTE
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El llano en llamas
Rulfo, Juan
Narrativa - Cuento
México, D. F.
Fondo de Cultura Económica (Letras Mexicanas; 11)
1953
Rulfo crea un mundo en donde los seres viven en relación con un presente trágico, la nostalgia del pasado y la falta de esperanza. El autor logró retratar de forma inigualable la problemática del campo y la visión mágica de los campesinos.
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Pedro Páramo
Rulfo, Juan
Narrativa - Novela
México, D. F.
Fondo de Cultura Económica (Letras Mexicanas; 19)
1955
Dentro de su brevedad, determinada por el rigor y la concentración expresiva, Pedro Páramo sintetiza la mayor parte de los temas que han interesado siempre a los mexicanos, ese misterio nacional que el talento de Juan Rulfo ha sabido condensar en los habitantes de Comala, región inscrita ya en la mitología literaria universal.
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