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Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America. Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero Wars and within the interlinking currents of specifically national and wider Western literary and cultural traditions.Later sections offer detailed analyses of the short stories, El Llano en llamas, the novel Pedro Páramo, the novella El gallo de oro and of Rulfo's substantial photographic work, the importance of which has only recently been grasped. Throughout the study the focus is to bring into a productive dialogue the different dimensions of Rulfo's texts: the materiality of his hauntingly strange poetic prose, the disturbing instability of meaning and identity, the alienation caused by violence and injustice. Steven Boldy is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge.
Trade ReviewThis is a rich, clear, insightful study of celebrated Mexican writer/photographer Juan Rulfo. (...) In analyzing Rulfo's life and artistic production, the author turns over every stone. Rulfo has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly interest, and Boldy draws on major analyses/perspectives offered by others and on biographical treatments and dozens of interviews. CHOICE
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations - Steven Boldy Introduction - Steven Boldy El Llano en llamas, The Plain in Flames - Steven Boldy Pedro Páramo - Steven Boldy El gallo de oro - Steven Boldy Juan Rulfo, Photographer - Steven Boldy Bibliography - Steven Boldy
