Los ultrajes y la violencia de estos relatos revelan una realidad devastada por la injusticia social. La herencia que reciben no es otra cosa que un montón de polvo. De manera emblemática, uno de los relatos lleva el título de ‘Nos han dado la tierra’. “Con los cuentos logró una nueva representación del campo mexicano y la miseria en la que viven sus personajes. Luego leí el llano en llamas, y fue como una prolongación del entusiasmo que había tenido con su novela”, dice Cristina Fernández Cubas. Llegué a él por Pedro Páramo y me dejó asombrada. I’d be curious which they were as the article didn’t mention them. What I didn’t know, is that in 1970 he added two stories to the collection.

I’ve always wanted more, which is the best way a writer should leave a reader. For good and bad he only published those two books (there are some film scripts, too). He, along with Fuentes, Yañez, and Azuelo, was my entry in to Spanish language authors and he has remained the one who has remained as intriguing as ever, someone who’s work you would like to return to over and over. Even in translation, which is how I first read him, it his work has great power from economy and stories that seem as dry and strange as the barren landscapes they describe. All these years later I still love his work. El Pais reminded me that it has been 60 years since The Burning Plain (El llano en llamas) was published If you have not yet read Juan Rulfo’s collection of short stories (or his novel Pedro Parama) it is something you must do.

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