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Juan Rulfo (1918–1986)

Author of Pedro Páramo

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Works by Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo (1955) 4,386 copies, 101 reviews
The Burning Plain, and Other Stories (1953) 1,295 copies, 32 reviews
Pedro Páramo / The Burning Plain (1969) 634 copies, 11 reviews
The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings (1980) 204 copies, 3 reviews
Relatos / Stories (Spanish Edition) (1994) 67 copies, 1 review
Toda la obra (1985) 44 copies, 1 review
En la madrugada y otros relatos (1993) 41 copies, 2 reviews
Juan Rulfo's Mexico (1983) 33 copies
Antologia Personal (1977) 27 copies, 1 review
Cartas a Clara (2013) 20 copies
El fotógrafo Juan Rulfo (2017) 12 copies
Oaxaca (2010) 10 copies
Los cuadernos de Juan Rulfo (1994) 9 copies, 1 review
100 photographs (2010) 8 copies
¡Diles que no me maten! (2005) 7 copies
Ova Alev Alev 5 copies
Retales (2009) 4 copies
Juan Rulfo: Oaxaca (1997) 3 copies
PARA CUANDO YO ME AUSENTE (1983) 2 copies
Antología personal (2021) 2 copies
Altin Horoz (2019) 2 copies
Homenaje a Juan Rulfo (1989) 2 copies
Talpa 1 copy
Der goldene Hahn (1984) 1 copy
En los ferrocarriles (2012) 1 copy
Juan Rulfo, Fotógrafo (1995) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Contributor — 383 copies, 3 reviews
The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America (1973) — Contributor — 165 copies, 2 reviews
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (1991) — Contributor — 162 copies, 3 reviews
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories (2000) — Contributor — 123 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997) — Contributor — 122 copies
Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (1996) — Contributor — 59 copies, 1 review
Mejores relatos latinoamericanos (1998) — Contributor — 30 copies
De toppen van Latijns-Amerika (1984) — Contributor — 17 copies
Stories for a Winter's Night (2000) — Contributor — 10 copies
Seven stories from Spanish America (1968) — Contributor — 7 copies
Queremos tanto a Julio: 20 autores para Cortázar (1984) — Contributor — 6 copies, 1 review
Mexiko erzählt (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies
Zomerse verhalen (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Literary Short Story (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies
Cuentos latinoamericanos II (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies
New Voices of Hispanic America: An Anthology — Contributor — 2 copies

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Pedro Paramo touches various themes is it unravels the story of its titular character, but the prevalent theme throughout the book is divine salvation. Based in the fictional town of Comala, the plot is put together through nonlinear storytelling that works well to keep the contrast between the past and the present states of the town fresh in the reader's mind.

With every piece of the town's history that Juan Rulfo puts together, he puts forward the question: "Who is more deserving of show more salvation, those in power who lived crooked and perverted lives but can afford to put together entire congregations of people to pray for them, or those who died in poverty while suffering at the hands of those very crooked and perverted people, leaving behind no one to pray for them?"

The time-lapse of the town of Comala is depicted brilliantly in this book, with the surrealist narration inducing a fever-dream like state within the reader with ease. However, the direction taken by the book in the second half makes the first half of the story feel rushed, and even slightly incomplete, which is why it falls short of 5 stars for me.
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"Satu-satunya hal yang membuatmu bertahan adalah harapan bahwa saat kau mati kau akan diangkat dari belitan kefanaan ini; tetapi ketika mereka menutup satu pintu untukmu dan satu-satunya pintu yang terbuka adalah pintu menuju neraka, lebih baik kau tak pernah dilahirkan..."

Membaca Pedro Paramo karya Juan Rulfo memberikan banyak kejutan yang tidak diantisipasi. Zaky Yamani berhasil menerjemahkan karya ini—setidaknya bagi saya—agar mampu dipahami seutuhnya.

Pedro Paramo, nama yang harus show more dicari oleh Juan Preciado sebagai janji terakhir kepada ibunya. Bertolak ke Comala, Juan harus melihat daerah subur yang menjadi gersang dan mati akibat dendam Pedro Paramo, ayahnya. Namun kota itu penuh dengan arwah-arwah gentayangan mencari pengampunan. Mereka semua mati karena kekacauan hati Pedro Paramo, Iblis yang hancur karena kematian kekasih hatinya. Lewat arwah-arwah yang tinggal di Pedro Paramo, Juan melihat bagaimana nasib ayahnya.

Pedro Paramo disebut-sebut sebagai karya yang mengilhami Cien Anos de Soledad dari Gabriel Garcia Marquez, penulis Kolombia. Setelah membaca tulisan Juan Rulfo ini, saya melihat ada kemagisan yang serupa. Kedua karya ini sama2 menceritakan cerita kutukan, ketika semua suara yang didengar adalah suara orang mati, suara dari neraka, dan kehampaan yang muncul setelah kehancuran yang hebat. Kekhasan ini juga saya temukan dalam cerita Miguel Angel Asturias yang berjudul Tuan Presiden.

Selain nama-nama karakter yang khas, ada unsur Latin yang sangat melekat untuk Pedro Paramo, 100YOS, dan Tuan Presiden: aspek religi tentang bagaimana suatu tindakan mendapatkan ganjaran serta kehidupan tanpa pengampunan. Terasa juga rasa takut yang dialami para karakter atas konsekuensi yang akan mereka hadapi jika melanggar dosa-dosa Tuhan. Ursula Iguaran begitu takut jika ada praktik incest di dalam keluarganya, seperti halnya Bapa Renteria tak mampu lagi memberi pengampunan di Comala akibat semua kelakuan Pedro Paramo dan anaknya.

Rasa takut dan patuh para karakter rasakan ini menunjukkan detail indah tentang bagaimana keyakinan mereka pegang kuat sebagai aturan hidup, menunjukkan peranan keyakinan dan agama di negara2 Latin. Dibandingkan dengan penulis Eropa yang memasukkan unsur teologis seperti Tolstoy, akan sangat terasa perbedaan dalam melihat suatu keadaan.

When the devil fell in love, he only loved someone outside of this world. And when everything crumbled down, his own child had to take a long journey to find what the devil did to bring all those harm...
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I read this for Reading Globally's Mexico month. In fact, I read it twice, and I will probably read it again in the future. It is a book that, despite its brevity, will continue to reward and enlighten a reader with each successive reading.

It is the story of a son's quest for the father he has never known. Juan Preciado promised his mother on her deathbed that he would seek his father, Pedro Paramo. He travels to the town of Comala, where he has been told his father lives.

At first Comala show more appears to be deserted and abandoned. It is actually a place 'swarming with spirits: hordes of restless souls who died without forgiveness, and people would never have won forgiveness in any case...' Comala is a town permeated with rain, fog, falling stars, and murmurs.

From the murmurings, Juan learns the story of his father. The story is told with seamless shifts in points of view; it is non-chronological and non-linear. In that sense, it reminded me of Faulkner, but without the dense and wandering prose. Rulfo writes in simple language, as in a fable or fairy tale.

The novel is intense, surreal, and almost hallucinatory. It was extremely influential on Latin American writers who followed Rulfo, including Donoso, Vargas Llosa, and Garcia Marquez. In fact, Marquez said that he had memorized the entire book.
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El "Llano en llamas" es hoy un clásico de la literatura mexicana e hispanoamericana, y probablemente uno de los volúmenes de cuentos más traducido a otros idiomas en el mundo entero. Obra aparentemente sencilla resulta, sin embargo, profundamente desconcertante. En su unidad formal descansa una gran diversidad de lenguajes, registros y tonos con los que Rulfo aborda la problemática de una violencia multiforme (desembozada unas veces, insidiosa otras), hasta tal punto naturalizada que ha show more dejado de reconocerse como tal. Sin embargo, el autor no la "refleja" ni la "denuncia", ni tampoco la pone en escena: la persigue hasta sus repliegues más recónditos, compenetrándose con el sentir de quienes la ejercen o la padecen, sin alcanzar a reconocerla las más de las veces. O más precisamente: antes que la violencia misma, lo que los cuentos de "El Llano en llamas" ponen en escena suele ser ese oscuro y confuso bregar con su impronta en el sentir de quienes se vieron alguna vez envueltos en ella, sin advertir entonces su verdadero rostro. show less

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