Juan Rulfo, Author Debate $16.95 (341p) ISBN 978-84-8306-275-3
The 81 letters brought together in this collection capture a hopelessly devoted and amorous Juan Rulfo, the father of magical realism. To read his correspondence to Clara Aparicio, his young girlfriend, muse, and eventual wife, is to be immersed in...
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Juan Rulfo, trans. from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans with Harold Augenbraum. Univ. of Texas, $19.95 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-0-292-74385-4
This new translation of a 1953 collection of stories (plus two not previously published in English) from the acclaimed Mexican writer draws readers in with its gritty realism. Each story is told in the first person by characters such as priests and...
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Juan Rulfo, Author, Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator, Margaret S. Paden, Translator Grove Press $14 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8021-3390-8
Rulfo's 1955 surrealist novel portrays a man's quest for his Mexican heritage. (May)
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Juan Rulfo, Author, Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator, Susan Sontag, Foreword by Northwestern University Press $37.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1021-2
First published in Mexico in 1955, Rulfo's ( The Burning Plain and Other Stories ) only novelpk is a modern classic. The opening of this brief yet complex work is deceptively simple: Juan Preciado has promised his dying mother that he will visit...
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Juan Rulfo, trans. from the Spanish by Douglas J. Weatherford. Deep Vellum (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-1-941920-58-9
The story of one man’s changing fortunes in a semimythical Mexico anchors this captivating, occasionally haphazard collection of Rulfo’s (Pedro Paramo) short stories, letters, and fragments. In the titular short novel, impoverished town crier...
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Juan Rulfo, trans. from the Spanish by Douglas J. Weatherford. Univ. of Texas, $21.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4773-2996-2
Weatherford’s fresh new translation of this seminal 1953 collection from Mexican writer Rulfo (1917–1986) lays bare the enigmatic potency of its stories about love, poverty, and violence. In “Talpa,” the narrator returns home alone after fulfilling...
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