![]() ![]() Rulfo, who died in 1986 at the age of 69, is now considered one of the finest Latin American writers of the 20th century, even though only two works of fiction anchor his reputation, “Pedro Páramo” and his 1953 collection of short stories, “El Llano en llamas” (“The Burning Plain”). As the Mexican novelist and essayist Pedro Palou remarked last fall, “After such brutal reviews, I would have changed professions and become a street salesman.”īut “Pedro Páramo” and its author indeed gained wide acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The critics questioned its central premise, the story of a man who walks into a village populated by talking ghosts. NEW YORK-Critics in Mexico had little use for Juan Rulfo’s novel when “Pedro Páramo” first appeared in 1955, and the slender volume that would become a national treasure sold poorly for its first four years. ![]() North America Juan Rulfo, Rediscovering a Literary Giant February 19, 2018 ![]()
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