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Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books--the novel Pedro Paramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in 1967 as The Burning Plain, these starkly realistic stories create a psychologically acute portrait of poverty and dignity in the countryside at a time when Mexico was undergoing rapid industrialization following the upheavals of the Revolution. According to Ilan Stavans, the stories' "depth seems almost inexhaustible: with a...

"Juan Rulfo is our most important author." -- Yuri Herrera, author of Signs 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),...