The Burning Plain, and Other Stories

Author

Juan Rulfo

Original Work

The Burning Plain

Translator

George D. Schade

Language

English

Year

1971

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Country

United States

Pages

191

ISBN

0292701322

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A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality.— Google Books