“Juan Rulfo is our most important author.” — Yuri Herrera, author ofSigns Preceding the End of the World
“Among contemporary writers in Mexico today [1959], Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals.” —The New York Times Book Review
The legendary title novella from one of Mexico’s most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated stories, marks a landmark event in world literature.
Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), Mexico’s most important and influential author of the twentieth century, received numerous awards in his lifetime, including the esteemed Cervantes Prize, and his work served as the literary precursor of “magical realism.”
This work presents Juan Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated.
Considered one of the leading writers of the 20th century, credited with influencing the works of other Latin American authors including Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez.
Rulfo won Mexico's National Prize for Literature in 1970 and was awarded the Cervantes prize in 1985 for his accomplishments.
Though it was written as a novel, The Golden Cockerel made its first appearance as a film, and won the Mexican Cinema Journalists' Silver Goddess award in 1965.
To read Rulfo's stories is to inhabit Mexico and, in the process, to have Mexico inhabit you. Oscar Casares,NPR
You can read Rulfo's slight but dense body of work in a couple of days, but that represents only a first step into territories that are yet to be definitively mapped. Their exploration is one of the more remarkable journeys in literature. Chris Power,The Guardian
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