Centennial of the Great Writer Juan Rulfo

Posted on May 19, 2017

This week marks one year since the birth of Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, the Mexican writer better known as Juan Rulfo, who achieved broad international acclaim though he only wrote two books. His novel, Pedro Páramo, and his collection of short stories, El llano en llamas (The Plain in Flames), offer brutal portrayals of violence in Mexico after the Revolution of 1910, which some have compared to contemporary violence there. Our reporter in Mexico, Raúl Silva, has this report.

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One Response to Centennial of the Great Writer Juan Rulfo

Enrique Bernal Millàn. said: No me deja de sorprender Pedro Pàramo y el alcance de su contenido simbolismo y significado. leyendo otras obras de escritores foràneos, siempre me detengo y analizo el pàrrafo y me digo; ! Esto se parece a Pedro Pàramo ! es increible como se puede relacionar una obra con otras, el sufrimiento,, los asesinatos, el luto, la anarquia, la pobreza, y los lamentos de un pueblo olvidado...! Lamentos si, me parece la obra de Rulfo. ! Saludos Raul y disculpa los acentos, tengo un teclado de otra galaxia.