El Llano en llamas

The Burning Plain and other Stories
First edition
AuthorJuan Rulfo
Original titleEl Llano en Llamas (Spanish)
Translatorinto English: George D. Schade; Ilan Stavans; Stephen Beechinor
into French: Gabriel Iaculli
LanguageSpanish translated into French and into English
GenreShort story collection
PublisherFondo de Cultura Económica
Publication date
1953
Publication placeMexico
Pages170 pp
ISBN978-0-292-70132-8
OCLC20956761

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]

  1. ^ "The Burning Plain and Other Stories". University of Texas Press. 2019. Retrieved 2009-05-21. 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]
  2. ^ "The Plain in Flames". University of Texas Press. 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-12-09. Retrieved 2009-07-11. 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."
  3. ^ "Structo Press | Structo". Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  4. ^ "Juan Rulfo - Detalle del autor - Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México - FLM - CONACULTA". www.elem.mx. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
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