Rulfo, Juan
Summary: "El Llano en llamas is considered a classic of Mexican literature. The collection of short stories takes place in rural Jalisco where Mexicans struggle to survive after the Mexican Revolution. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press
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Summary: A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press