Rulfo, Juan

Pedro Paramo
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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
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ASIN: 0802133908

Book Description

Desde su aparición en 1955, esta extraordinaria novela del mexicano Juan Rulfo se ha traducido a mas de treinta lenguas y ha dado lugar a multiples y permanentes reediciones en los países de la lengua hispana. Esta edición, única revisada y autorizada por la Fundación Juan Rulfo, debe ser considerada como su edicion definitiva.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Marvelous Story.......2007-04-02

I first read this book in a university Spanish class. It is a classic that will endure forever and speaks to all people.

5 out of 5 stars Del olvido al no me acuerdo.......2006-02-01

Gabriel Garcia Marquez said this was the best book ever written in the Spanish language after the Quixote, certainly many writers and even some novel prizes will not be able to write a book so simple and at the same time so deep and complex, full of delicate and exuberant poetry like this is. The extreme qualities of this book I think have been already described by so many good-taste costumers as well as denied by some confused spirits that would do best giving their opinion about cheap soap-operas, bestsellers (and with some restrictions),TV shows, the super bowl... (things that can stimulate their minds) but certainly not about literature. Nevermind. For those interested in going deeper inside the atmosphere from which Juan Rulfo subtracted his characters, the Independent low-budget documental "Del Olvido al no me acuerdo", directed by Juan Rulfo's son Juan Carlos Rulfo, can reveal a lot about Rulfo's work. The documental is in itself a micro-masterpiece that was awarded in several international film festivals.

5 out of 5 stars A Classic Novel, Haunting & Poignant. A Must Read!.......2005-05-08

Author Juan Rulfo's extraordinarily powerful novel, "Pedro Paramo," captures the essence of life in rural Mexico during the last years of the 19th century, and the beginning of the 20th, like no other work of fiction. Here, in a mere 124 pages, the author vividly portrays the radical social and economic changes which spurred the dramatic migration of the campesinos from ranchos and villages to the urban slums, where they could no longer live off the land, nor find work. Ghost towns mark the places where many had once flourished. I first read this masterpiece in English while living in Guadalajara, Mexico, over 25 years ago. I was absolutely captivated by the haunting story and by the fascinating characters. I reread the book a few years later, in Spanish, and was able to appreciate, first-hand, the authors skillful, nuanced use of language. After a series of surrealistic dreams, which turned my thoughts southward, I recently picked up another copy and began to read once more of the dry, deserted streets of Comala and the man who doomed the town and its inhabitants. I am amazed that the novel remains as fresh, magical and poignant as it did the first time around. I think Juan Rulfo's masterpiece takes on depth and texture with each reading. And it certainly proves true the maxim, "Good/great things come in small packages."

Pedro Paramo, the son of failing landowners, was consumed with love for Susana San Juan. This intense passion lasted a lifetime. Eventually, Pedro's aging father and family died, and Susana moved away. Alone and lonely, he assumed control of the estate and unscrupulously did whatever he had to, fair and foul, to amass a fortune and build his empire. He married the heiress Dolores Preciado, took possession of her land and wealth, and sent her to live an isolated existence with her sister. His ranch, in Comala, the Media Luna, expanded with great success at the expense of others. However, the manipulative, exploitive patriarch would pay dearly, in spades in fact, for his greed and for the sorrow he brought to Comala and her people.

Dolores Preciado, on her deathbed, extracts a promise from her son, Juan, to return to Comala to find his father and claim what is theirs. Juan narrates and guides the reader on his journey to the dusty, desolate village, now populated by ghosts, lost souls who murmur to him, sighing and complaining in desperate voices, until he believes that he too is dead. The story of Juan's experience, his search for identity and his heritage, is interwoven with the tale of his father, Pedro Paramo, and that of sad, beautiful Susana San Juan.

The novel was first published in 1955 and has become a classic, not only in Spanish speaking countries, but worldwide, for its themes are universal. This is a literary class and a truly great book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
JANA

5 out of 5 stars Says more with silence than with words........2005-04-12

Rulfo worked on this novel his whole life, and it's only 115 pages. This indicates his mastery of saying much with few words. Not for the casual reader or the pulp-fiction reader, this novel evokes a feeling of distant place. Lends insight into a feudal, rural Mexico that transformed itself, leaving ghost towns scattered around the countryside. Bleeding the residents of the town are a church that offers no redemption, a constant band of guerillas, and of course Pedro Paramo, the self-indulgent "owner" of the town, whose travails trickle down to affect everyone. Worth every moment - this book is meant to haunt you.

5 out of 5 stars i must say...for IB it's great.......2004-12-07

This book is a great book for the IB curriculum if the teachers are rooting for you to fail...this is what i thought the first time i read this book...then i read it again and again and again. and i annotated passages and went online to search for the answer...then i relaized there was no answer, Rulfo wanted us, as the readers, to believe whatever we want to believe about the town of Comala and Preciado's end. This book is timeless, switches between first and third person narrative, past and present and shows how one man's endeavor to find his father can become a surrealistic tale involving the souls of the dead who wander in Limbo around Comala waiting...we see the greivances of father renteria; the murdering rapist miguel; the suicide of eduviges. we see the sins the people of Comala were driven to under the rule of Preciado's father, paramo, which means wasteland. Rulfo shows us how Comala became a ghost town through seemingly unconnected narratives of events in the past, of Preciado's mothers marriage to paramo and the reasons behind it; Their wedding night, which never happened; paramo as he grew up; we follow paramo through the death of the only son he acknowledged; and finally, through the death of his last wife, Susana, who was in love with a dead man. Susana is the 'final nail in the coffin' as she was the onbly thing that could have saved Comala from what was otherwise an inevitable fate.

This book is amazing for those who have an open-mind, read it carefully, and dont try to hard to understand it...
Pedro Paramo Y El Llano En Llamas
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  • De los mejores cuentos mexicanos....
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  • An amazing story
  • Una de las mejores obras
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Pedro Paramo Y El Llano En Llamas
Juan Rulfo
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5 out of 5 stars De los mejores cuentos mexicanos...........2006-02-01

Pedro Paramo, de Juan Rulfo.



La historia de un cacique pueblerino, de nombre Pedro Páramo, de un pueblo mítico llamado Comala , al cual acude Juan Preciado, bajo promesa en lecho de muerte a su madre, de cobrar las afrentas del olvido de su padre: Pedro Páramo. De las mejores novelas mexicanas del siglo XX, del mexicano Juan Rulfo, uno de los grandes narradores de la narrativa hispanoamericana. La célebre linea con que inicia la novela "-Vine a Comala, porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo-"posee la fuerza profética de las obras maestras. En efecto, Juan Preciado, el narrador de la novela, no dice "fui" sino "vine": se dirige a nosotros desde las profundidades de Comala, todas las palabras que estamos a punto de escuchar, más que de leer, provienen, de los labios de un muerto. Empeñado en rastrear la verdad, Juan Preciado, pagará su osadía con su única herencia...la vida.



En el camino a Comala, Juan Preciado va recorriendo laderas y montes, para encontrar ese pueblo y a su paso se encuentra con un hombre con el cual entabla una conversación:



"-Hace calor aquí, dije.

-Sí, y esto no es nada-me contestó el otro. Cálmese. Ya lo sentirá mas fuerte, cuando lleguemos a Comala. Aquello está sobre las brasas de la tierra, en la mera boca del infierno. Con decirle que muchos de los que ahí se mueren, al llegar al infierno regresan por su cobija.

Vaya descripción, como queriendo decir, que en verdad ese pueblo era desolador y pleno de calor intenso, el calor precisamente del aire envenenado, la soledad y el fatalismo. Confundiendo la realidad con la alucinación. Y bueno, hablando de calor intenso, suponganse un calor de esos de verano en la región huasteca potosina, y multipliquenlo por 2 o 3.



En el camino hacia su destino se encuentra con Damiana, Damiana Cisneros, la vieja que le ayuda dandole posada en su casa, y le pregunta que ha sido de su madre, la que le cuenta detalles de la vida de Pedro Páramo y de propia mamá:





La alucinación, la soledad, el calor..los motivos, Juan Preciado, se encontraba en su paso con personajes míticos, personajes del pasado, que nunca se habían ido y que a su vez vivían en el pasado de su pasado. Que existían solo en el pasado de su propia madre, ¿acaso es que ella, ya estaba allí, también? ¿O el mismo era parte de esa fantasmal realidad? Quizás era la factura que había que pagar por los perjurios que su padre Pedro Páramo había hecho en su pasado, y reencarnado en él..luchaba con su propio yo con sus "meas culpas".



Los invito a integrarse a ésta viaje, éste marvilloso viaje de lo real e inexistente, el viaje de los parajes desolados, de los personajes míticos, de los cuales siempre aprendes algo nuevo, donde existe todo, donde nada existe. El lugar donde solo manda una persona y se hace lo que el cacique dice..Pedro Paramo hizo escuela, cuantos Pedros Páramos tenemos que afrontar en nuestras vidas?, seremos nosotros acaso, los que paguemos las deudas contraídas en el pasado de nuestros antepasados Pedros Páramos? O Nosotros mismos, en nuestro subconsciente emulemos sin querer, las ganas de llegar a tener ese estatus de poder , privilegio y dominio..como el que en su momento Pedro Paramo tuvo en sus regiones... Alguna similitud con la vida real, es mera coincidencia. Calor intenso, caciques mal hechos, abusos de poder, la sumisión por convicción, la sumisión por tradición, personajes fantasmagóricos..ubiquémonos, cada uno de nosotros en los personajes de Rulfo..nos encontraremos...y quizás un día un Juan Preciado, busque cobrarse las afrentas de lo comprometido en lecho de muerte...no pidiendo, si no exigiendo lo que le corresponde y cobrado...caro.

Los invito a integrarse en ésta lectura..ojalá y nos demos la oportunidad de caer cautivos de su letra y su enseñanza, si no lo conseguimos, al menos aburridos, no estaremos...



5 out of 5 stars Precursor del realismo mágico.......2005-06-22

Si cree que el boom literario latinoamericano empezó con Gabriel García Márquez, piense de nuevo. Este es el libro génesis. El que inspiró a muchos autores, incluyendo a GGM, a seguir la línea del realismo mágico que revolucionó nuestras letras. Antes de que Cien Años de Soledad fuera lo que es, Juan Rulfo y sus Pedro Páramo y El llano en llamas, existían.

5 out of 5 stars An amazing story.......2005-04-02

This book I have read many times in the last two decades and it has never lost its magic. A tale that will bring chills and provoke thought. A must-read for anyone who loves to dream.

5 out of 5 stars Una de las mejores obras.......2002-12-18

El lenguaje empleado en el libro es facil de entender. Y, precisamente, la genialidad radica en este aspecto. A pesar de no emplear palabras elaboradas, la novela es extremadamente compleja por la anacronia. La mezcla de los diversos recursos literarios para describir la situacion hacen al lector pensar en el significado de lo qye Juan Rulfo trata de decir.
Otro aspecto interesante radica en que la novela retrata con fidelidad la cultura mexicana, desde la muerte hasta por el lenguaje y forma de actuar de los protagonistas de la historia. Sin duda alguna, este libro es un precedente de lo que despues seria el premio nobel de Mexico: Laberinto de la Soledad por Octavio Paz.

5 out of 5 stars Ya es un clasico mexicano.......2002-07-09

Decidi leer esta novela al enterarme de que es la favorita de por lo menos siete de los escritores hispanoamericanos mas reconocidos del siglo que recien termino. Lo que lei me gusto muchisimo. La genialidad de Juan Rulfo al describir la relacion del pueblo mexicano con el tema de la muerte es indescriptible.
Indispensable leer este libro para tener una vision completa de la literatura hispanoamericana.
The Burning Plain: and other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
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The Burning Plain: and other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
Juan Rulfo
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<blockquote> <p class="quote"> "Juan Rulfo's fifteen tales of rural folk prove him to be one of the master storytellers of modern Mexico.... Rulfo has an eye for the depths of the human soul, an ear for the 'still sad music of humanity,' and a gift for communicating what takes place internally and externally in man."</p> <p class="source"> <cite>—Houston Post</cite> </p> <p class="quote">"<cite>The Burning Plain and Other Stories</cite> consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casual incidents that remind one of 'happenings' in pop art, to short stories. Many, indeed, are short-short stories in deceptively elemental language and narrative technique; yet all have a sharp impact on the reader.... With a few bare phrases the author conveys a feeling for the bleak, harsh surroundings in which his people live."</p> <p class="source"> <cite>—Saturday Review </cite></p> </blockquote>

A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel <cite>Pedro Páramo</cite> (1955) and his collection of short stories <cite>El llano en llamas</cite> (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. </p>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars MCLC students.......2007-01-24


The Burning Plain is about fifteen emotional stories. The stories give the reader a lot to think about. Many of these stories are short interesting stories that give the reader what to think about, action, sad parts, and contains nasty events when people are killed. We recommend the book to the readers because it is a very interesting book because the way many short stories are put into one book. The book will make the reader feel grossed out because in the ways some people are killed. All of these stories take place in a rural place. For, example Talpa takes place in a village as well as Luvina. In the story Macario the setting is in a house.

5 out of 5 stars strange but captivating writing.......2006-01-06

Rulfo's style, like his stories, is sparse, quiet, and often harsh. He offers disturbing tales of miserable people in barren places; yet there is also a strange beauty to be found in his work. I can think of few, if any, examples of such perfect prose. The characters--though they suffer--seem close at hand and perfectly real, and he gives the most incredible descriptions of landscapes that I have ever read in my life. It is easy to see his connection to "magical realism"--it is largely in the way he sets the tone of the stories, and in those unbelievably vivid descriptions--but his work does not fall into that category. There is no escaping the terribly blunt reality he creates.

Whether you are interested in Latin American literature or not, if you are at all interested in prose, you should read this book.

5 out of 5 stars give art a chance........2004-06-22

The Burning Plains is a compilation of short stories that Juan Rulfo published on diferent publications at different times. it's also at the moment, besides his masterpiece Pedro Paramo, the only material available.
The shorts stories are chilling, incledibly well written. It's superb, and the english translation more than acceptable.
To me the highlights of the book are "Talpa" and "they have given us the land" (the opener on the spanish version, but some reason is not on this english edition)but the whole book is amazing.
I bought this book for my girfriend as an exorsism from jennifer Wiener's "Good in Bed" I was worried about the translation but it didn't dissapoint me.
the ideal way to read The Burning Plain is in spanish, but since this book is not that surreal as pedro paramo is, this tranlation works just fine.
I hope this brief note helps you to choose a good book.

5 out of 5 stars The perfect writing.......2001-02-02

One regrettable consequence of Garcia Marquez's fame is that Latin American literature has come to be identified exclusively with "magical realism". Everything has to be extraordinary, epic, full of tropical lust, palms, jaguars, people having sex in every corner, flying to the sky with a pineapple on their heads. But Latin America is a vast continent producing artist of universal stature, even if the rest of the world decides (to their disadvantage) to ignore all but the folkloric.

Well, Juan Rulfo is a master of the highest sort and this book is NOT magical realism, but pure, hard realism. He only wrote two books, this one and "Pedro Paramo", another masterpiece which I also don't count as magical realism, although some do, as well as a few lesser works. He didn't need to write much. His is a literature worked and reworked restlessly, until reaching perfection. Every single word fits perfectly with the rest. There are no digressions, no philosophy, no theories or grand landscapes. All his tales develop in Southern Jalisco, in a poor, dry, vast, sunburned and sad land. The prose is also dry, precise, economical and to the point. The characters are ignorant, miserable, but conscious and courageous. The titles say much: "It's because we are so poor" is one of them. However, you will not find self-pity or corny sad tales. Only bits of human misery perfectly narrated. By the way, this is the first review I write for Amazon in which I use the word "perfect". Probably it won't happen again, with one or two exceptions.

5 out of 5 stars A masterpice of short stories.......2000-12-07

ANGST. This is the best word to describe the human landscape that Rulfo has portrayed in this collection of short stories. A lanscape of extreme sorrow that blossoms over the arid plain, where poverty, opression and ignorance intermingle with faith to shape the tragedy of the post-revolutionary rural Mexico. A tragedy that has lived over 70 years and that may help explaining the nature of the mexican people, their doings and fears. But moreover its social meanings, Juan Rulfo, has created a masterpiece of storytelling, not only at the Latin-american level, but rather as an universal gift. This is not magic realism alà Garcia Marquez or Isabel Allende. This is bare boned reality, told with the beauty and the ease that just a master can reach, in which the words mix perfectly for creating short bursts of narrative, perfectly solved stories, that will fill the mind, the mouth and the eyes of the reader with the burnt sand of the plains, with the ashes of the dead, with the tears of the desperate. If you're ready to follow Tanilo's bloody footsteps toward Talpa, to hunt toads with Macario, or to fall under the spell of Niño Anacleto's preaching, or under the spell of misterious rural Mexico, dive into the pages of this collection of short stories, and compare it with any other you have already read, and you will understand why Rulfo never writed any further. Because he almost reached perfection.
Toda la obra (Coleccion Archivos)
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    El Llano En Llamas (Coleccion Popular)
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    • El llano en llamas
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    5 out of 5 stars El llano en llamas.......2003-01-21

    Uno de los mejores libros que he leido. Las historias son realmente muy buenas. Recomendado para todos aquellos que les gusta leer.

    3 out of 5 stars eXCELENTE.......2000-03-25

    El libro es muy bueno y sobre todo da esa información tan valiosa del mundo latinoamericano. Su descripción de la vida es espectacular

    5 out of 5 stars Lo mejor de la literatura mexicana.......1999-08-11

    Este es el tipo de relatos que uno espera ver del México de la fantasía, de los sueños. Excelente libro.
    El llano en llamas/The plain in flames (Letras Hispanicas, 218)
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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Rulfo's best.......2002-11-06

    Rulfo shines as a "cuentista" and I think this collection of
    stories establishes him as northern Mexico's poetic voice. The desolation of Mexican life here is truly haunting yet somehow beautiful. I recommend these stories over his novel "Pedro Paramo", even though the novel is quite interesting.

    5 out of 5 stars beautiful sadness.......2000-11-16

    I read this book in Spanish for the language, then in English for extra clarity. It is beautifully sparse, much like a black and white photograph - its surface is dark and bleak and colorless, yet the texture which can be read and felt beneath the surface is absolutely breathtaking. Rulfo creates a world I am both entranced by and afraid of.
    Juan Rulfo's Mexico
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      Juan Rulfo's Mexico

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      Book Description

      Juan Rulfo was one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth century. His 1955 novel Pedro Páramo is considered one of the foundational classics of magic realism, predating One Hundred Years of Solitude by more than a decade. Lesser known are his haunting photographs of Mexico, which exhibit remarkable parallels to his prose. The photographs, mainly taken between 1945 and 1955, do not tell stories: they present. The images of people and their land, women in their traditional dress, musicians with their instruments, capture the calm, quiet, inner rhythms of Mexico's rural population. Rulfo extracts unique moments through his photographs; his images of desolate, abandoned buildings, their walls destroyed by artillery shells, are expressions of his nation's painful history. His quietly dramatic landscapes recall the work of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston while displaying a style that is truly his own.

      This collection of 175 images is the only comprehensive collection of Juan Rulfo's photographs available. The six essays preceding the images illuminate the photographs and pay tribute to one of Mexico's most enduring literary and visual artists.
      Los Mejores Relatos Fantasticos De Habla Hispana/the Best Fantastic Stories from the Spanish Language: Los Mejores Relatos Fantasticos De Habla Hispana (Serie Roja (Alfaguara (Firm)).)
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      • Una muestra de relatos fantásticos
      Los Mejores Relatos Fantasticos De Habla Hispana/the Best Fantastic Stories from the Spanish Language: Los Mejores Relatos Fantasticos De Habla Hispana (Serie Roja (Alfaguara (Firm)).)
      Jorge Luis Borges , Julio Cortazar , Cristina Fernandez Cubas , Carlos Fuentes , Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Javier Marias , Ana Maria Matute , Jose Ma Merino , Juan Jose Millas , and Juan Rulfo
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      4 out of 5 stars Una muestra de relatos fantásticos.......2007-05-06

      Una selección interesante de relatos, pero no exactamente los mejores, aunque haya maestros innegables como Borges, Cortázar o Rulfo.
      Pedro Paramo (Coleccion Popular 58)
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        Pedro Paramo (Coleccion Popular 58)
        Juan Rulfo
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          Juan Rulfo
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