Pedro Paramo y el Llano en Llamas/ Pedro Paramo and The Burning Plain (Esenciales (Essential)) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Rulfo, Juán

Contemporary

Rayo

A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality.

The Burning Plain and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

University of Texas Press

Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books—the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in 1967 as The Burning Plain, these starkly realistic stories create a psychologically acute portrait of poverty and dignity in the countryside at a time when Mexico was undergoing rapid industrialization following the upheavals of the Revolution. According to Ilan Stavans, the stories' "depth seems almost inexhaustible: with a few strokes, Rulfo creates a complex human landscape defined by desolation. These stories are lessons in morality. . . . They are also astonishing examples of artistic distillation."
To introduce a new generation of readers to Rulfo's unsurpassable literary talents, this new translation repositions the collection as a classic of world literature. Working from the definitive Spanish edition of El llano en llamas established by the Fundación Juan Rulfo, Ilan Stavans and co-translator Harold Augenbram present fresh translations of the original fifteen stories, as well as two more stories that have not appeared in English before—"The Legacy of Matilde Arcángel" and "The Day of the Collapse." The translators have artfully preserved the author's "peasantisms," in appreciation of the distinctive voices of his characters. Such careful, elegiac rendering of the stories perfectly suits Rulfo's Mexico, in which people on the edge of despair nonetheless retain a sense of self, of integrity that will not be taken away.

The Plain in Flames (Joe R. and Teresa Loranzo Long Series in Latin Americn and Latino Art and Culture)

United States

Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo.

The Plain in Flames (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

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 por medio de los cotidianos habitantes de Comala, región inscrita ya en la mitología literaria universal.

Pedro Paramo

World Literature

Grove / Evergreen Black Cat

Con introducción de Gabriel García Márquez "Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo. Mi madre me lo dijo. Y yo le prometí que vendría a verlo en cuanto ella muriera". Obra maestra del universo literario en español, esta portentosa novela mexicana narra la historia de Pedro Páramo, un caudillo local de quien dependen la vida y la muerte de un pueblo, Comala, y del hijo que va a buscarlo porque así se lo prometió a su madre moribunda. El narrador, JuanPreciado, llega a un pueblo deshabitado pero lleno de susurros, y a través de estos conoce la destrucción que trajo la convulsa pasión de Pedro Páramo hacia Susana San Juan. Publicada en 1955 y aclamada por el público y la crítica, Pedro Páramo representa un cambio radical con la novela realista de la época. Edición con introducción de Gabriel García Márquez. "No vayas a pedirle nada. Exígele lo nuestro. Lo que estuvo obligado a darme y nunca me dio... El olvido en que nos tuvo, mi hijo, cóbraselo caro".

Pedro Páramo (Spanish Edition)

Vintage Espanol

Pedro Páramo

GROVE PRESS

The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring an introduction by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal that foreshadowed and influenced the rise of "magical realism" in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. Juan Preciado swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the ghost town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo with the voices of tormented spirits that share the secrets and traumas of the past. There emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Rulfo's only novel is an uncannily beautiful story of love and the everlasting echoes of the dead. Although initially published to a quiet reception, it was soon recognized as a major novel that has served as a touchstone text for writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Sergio Pitol. Now published in a new translation by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Weatherford, in this new edition Pedro Páramo cements its place as one of the must-read literary texts of the twentieth century.

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Pedro Paramo y el Llano en Llamas/ Pedro Paramo and The Burning Plain (Esenciales (Essential)) (Spanish Edition)

The Burning Plain and Other Stories

The Plain in Flames (Joe R. and Teresa Loranzo Long Series in Latin Americn and Latino Art and Culture)

The Burning Plain and Other Stories

The Plain in Flames (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Pedro Paramo

Pedro Páramo (Spanish Edition)

Pedro Paramo

Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo