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el llano en llamas

Juan Rulfo

El Llano en Llamas (translated into English as "The Burning Plain and other Stories" and as "The Plain in Flames") is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo and first published in 1953.

This collection and a novel entitled Pedro Páramo published within three years of each other in the 1950s established Rulfo's literary reputation. One review of these stories praises these fifteen tales of rural folk because they "prove Juan Rulfo to be one of the master storytellers of modern Mexico....". The reviewer also noted that Rulfo

In his introduction to the Texas edition, translator George D. Schade describes some of the stories as long sustained interior monologues ("Macario", "We're very poor", "Talpa", "Remember"), while in other stories that may have otherwise been essentially monologues dialogues are inserted ("Luvina", "They have Given Us the Land" and ""Anacleto Morones"). A few stories, according to Schade, are scarcely more than anecdotes like "The Night They Left Him Alone".

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