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Author | Juan Rulfo |
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Original title | El Llano en Llamas (Spanish) |
Translator | into English: George D. Schade; Ilan Stavans; Stephen Beechinor into French: Gabriel Iaculli |
Language | Spanish translated into French and into English |
Genre | Short story collection |
Publisher | Fondo de Cultura Económica |
Publication date | 1953 |
Publication place | Mexico |
Pages | 170 pp |
ISBN | 978-0-292-70132-8 |
OCLC | 20956761 |
El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories,[1] The Plain in Flames,[2] and El Llano in flames[3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The stories were written over several years for different literary magazines, starting in 1945 with They Gave Us The Land.[4] The collection itself was first published in 1953 by the Fondo de Cultura Económica as part of the compendium Letras Mexicanas (lit. Mexican Writings). After its publication, two other stories, The Legacy of Matilde Arcángel and The Day of the Collapse were included in its second edition in 1970.
The stories in the book are set in the harsh countryside of the Jalisco region where Rulfo was raised, with the context of post-Mexican Revolution events such as the distribution of ejidos after the land reform and the Cristero War. They explore the tragic lives of the area's inhabitants who suffer from extreme poverty, family discord, and crime.[5] With a few bare phrases the author conveys a feeling for the bleak, harsh surroundings in which his people live.[6]
Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time.[permanent dead link]
Working from the definitive Spanish edition of El llano en llamas established by the Fundación Juan Rulfo, Ilan Stavans and co-translator Harold Augenbram present fresh translations of the original fifteen stories, as well as two more stories that have not appeared in English before—"The Legacy of Matilde Arcángel" and "The Day of the Collapse."
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