El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo
La encuesta del Instituto Nobel de Suecia, de 2002, dirigida a un centenar de escritores y estudiosos de todo el mundo, ubicó a Pedro Páramo entre las cien obras que constituyen el núcleo del patrimonio universal de la literatura. This collection contains 17 stories published by Rulfo beginning in 1945, when “Nos han dado la tierra” appeared in the literary reviews América and Pan. Rulfo described the progress of his work in letters to his fiancée Clara Aparicio. In 1951 he published a seventh story in América, “Diles que no me maten” (which Elias Canetti considered one of the finest stories ever written and Günter Grass admired as well). Thanks to a first grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Rulfo was able to finish eight more stories, which appeared with those already published under the general title of El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain), also the name of one of the stories in the volume. The book was dedicated to Clara.
Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) was one of Mexico's premier authors of the twentieth century and an important precursor of magical realism in Latin American writing. Rulfo received Mexico s National Prize for Literature (Premio Nacional de Literatura) in 1970, was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) in 1980, and received the Cervantes Prize (Premio Cervantes), the highest literary award in Spanish, in 1985. Rulfo suffered from lung cancer in his final months and died on January 7, 1986 at his home in Mexico City.
Douglas J. Weatherford graduated from BYU in 1988 (B.A. Spanish), served in the Persian Gulf War as a linguist, & after returning received his PhD in Latin American Literature at Penn State University. He has been a professor at BYU since 1995 & currently serves as Head of the Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures Section.
Douglas J. Weatherford graduated from BYU in 1988 (B.A. Spanish), served in the Persian Gulf War as a linguist, & after returning received his PhD in Latin American Literature at Penn State University. He has been a professor at BYU since 1995 & currently serves as Head of the Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures Section.
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| ISBN 13 | 9788493442613 |
| ISBN 10 | 8493442615 |
| Title | El llano en llamas |
| Author | Juan Rulfo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rm |
| Year published | 2005-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 174 |
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