![]() ![]() In the collection, he avoids the conventions of regional realism (which involve an educated narrator who identifies local “traditional” characters and scenes) that made rural folk seem rustic or ignorant, and focuses instead on reproducing the peasant’s thought and spoken word. Rulfo’s narrative style in The Burning Plain is regarded by many critics as revolutionary - he had clearly invented a new way of writing about rural life in Mexico. Indeed, Marquez credits Rulfo as influencing the composition of his great novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. ![]() These two works, though short, established Rulfo as among the most important writers of his generation - a figure comparable to Jorge Luis Borges in stature and a source of inspiration for subsequent writers, most notably Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It marked the first of Rulfo's two publications, the other being his highly regarded novel, Pedro Páramo (1955). ![]() Juan Rulfo's The Burning Plain and other Short Stories (originally En llano en llamas) was published in 1953. ![]()
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