The Plain in Flames by Rulfo, Juan

The Plain in Flames

Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two...
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Author: Juan Rulfo
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The Plain in Flames by Rulfo, Juan

The Plain in Flames

CHF 26.58

The Plain in Flames

CHF 26.58
Author: Juan Rulfo
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Juan Rulfo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 09/01/2012
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780292743854


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Publishers Weekly 10/01/2012

About the Author
ILAN STAVANSAmherst, MassachusettsOne of today's preeminent essayists, cultural critics, and translators, Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition; On Borrowed

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