Juan Rulfo: 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'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."
—Houston Post
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lucha c said:

“I love Rulfo's collection of stories and Pedro Paramo, tragically, for me, his only two works. I read them when I was a student at UC Berkeley during the heyday of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. All of us were reading Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Juan Jose Arreola, and the Mexican historians to learn who we are and where we've come from. I recommend these two books highly. ”

posted Wednesday, February 13 2008

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