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Juan Rulfo spent his childhood in an orphanage in Guadalajara. He later moved to Mexico City, where he worked as an auditor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. A great scholar of the culture and history of his country, a keen traveller and photography fan, Juan Rulfo needed to write just two books to establish himself as one of the giants of Spanish literature. With the publication of his book of short stories El llano en llamas, he became one of the most distinguished names in Mexican contemporary literature. His only novel, Pedro Páramo, was published in 1955. He had worked on it for more than a decade before its publication, and the work fully consolidated his reputation as one of the most significant authors in universal literature. Hailed as a landmark in magic realism, the work of Juan Rulfo feeds off both traditional Hispanic American narrative and the main innovators in Western literature such as Joyce, Faulkner and Woolf.
- "In our national culture, Juan Rulfo has been an entirely reliable interpreter of the intimate logic, ways of being, idiomatic sense, and the secret and public poetry of rural populations and communities, so often marginalised and forgotten." Carlos Monsiváis
- "One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole." Jorge Luis Borges
- "The most beautiful story ever written in the Spanish language."Gabriel García Márquez
- “Among contemporary writers in Mexico today Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals.” Selden Rodman, New York Times Book Review
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El gallo de oro, 1980
The Golden Cockerel is the legendary lost novella from Juan Rulfo, published in Spanish for the first time in 1980.
With the novella are collected several sketches and other writings, most of which speak to Rulfo’s preoccupations, chief among them de Juan Rulfo, Puente (Bridge). All photos taken between 1944–55. All photos are reproduced with permission of [the owner, with corresponding rights] Clara Aparicio de Rulfo. Juan Rulfo was born in 1917 in the village of San Gabriel, Jalisco, today Ciudad Venustiano Cerranza. Rulfo is renowned for his fictional accounts of campesinos living in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, and although he published only a few books in his lifetime, he received Mexico’s National Prize for Literature in 1970 and Spain’s Premio Cervantes in 1985. Rulfo’s short stories and his only novel, Pedro Páramo, were inspired by the violence that raged on the Mexican countryside into the late 1920s, killing thousands of peasants, including his mother and father. Though he was best known as a writer, Rulfo also took more than six thousand photographs in and around Jalisco. These photographs, selected from Juan Rulfo’s Mexico (Smithsonian Institution, 2002), present the bleak and startling realities of life in rural Mexico in the late 1940s and early ’50s. In his essay, “Writing Light and Photographing Word,” Eduardo Rivero writes, “If [Rulfo’s] narrative method is analogous to the photographic negative because it teaches us or impels us to see what so frequently is unperceived, his photographic art speaks through the silent medium of its images. Rulfo, through his photographs and his books, seems to be saying, Look! See! This world is here before us, it lacerates us with the anguished and ill-fated weight of its tangible reality. Come look!” —The Editors Juan Rulfo, Judas Para el Sabado de Gloria ("Judas" Figures for Sabado de Gloria). Juan Rulfo, Erupcion Del Paricutin y Templo de Parangaricutiro (Eruption of Paracutin and the Temple of Parangaricutiro). Juan Rulfo, Campesinas de Oaxaca (Oaxacan Farmers). For his son, see Juan Carlos Rulfo. For the Mexican footballer, see Juan Carlos García Rulfo. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rulfo and the second or maternal family name is Vizcaíno. Mexican writer (1917–1986) Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (Spanish:[ˈxwanˈrulfo]; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas (1953). This collection includes the popular tale "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!"). Rulfo was born in 1917 in Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed as being in San Gabriel, Jalisco) Mexico, although he was registered at Sayula, in the home of his paternal grandfather. Rulfo's birth year was often listed as 1918, because he had provided an inaccurate date to get into the military academy that his uncle, David Pérez Rulfo — a colonel working for the government — directed. After his father was killed in 1923 and his mother died in 1927, Rulfo's grandmother raised him in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were ruined by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War of 1926–1928, a Roman Catholic revolt against the persecutions of Christians by the Mexican government, following the Mexican Revolution. Rulfo was sent to study in the Luis Silva School, where he lived from 1928 to 1932. He c Authors The book consists of different essays written by specialists, offering relevant information about what photography meant to Rulfo, the echoes that inspired his work, as well as a chronology of the most important events in Juan Rulfo's life in relation to photography. The central part of the book brings together a significant number of images referred to in the essays, including some that have already become iconic in the history of photography, as well as others that were scarcely known or remained unpublished. For the first time, the book allows us to see, in parallel lines of text and images, Juan Rulfo's career as a photographer—a pursuit that Rulfo mastered completely, but which was often overlooked or considered secondary to his literary output by those who only casually approached this vast body of work.Juan Rulfo
Born Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno
16 May 1917
Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed as being in San Gabriel, Jalisco), MexicoDied 7 January 1986(1986-01-07) (aged 68)
Mexico City, MexicoOccupation Writer, screenwriter, photographer Notable works El Llano en llamas (1953)
Pedro Páramo (1955)Early life
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