Juan Rulfo

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Perez Rulfo Vizcano, known as John Rulfo1 (Apulco 1
Jalisco, May 16, 1917 - Mexico City, January 7, 1986) was a writer, screenwriter
and Mexican photographer, belonging to the generation of 52.2 The Rulfo's
reputation is based on two books: The Burning Plain, composed of seventeen
stories and published in 1953, and the novel Pedro Paramo, published in 1955.
Juan Rulfo was one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. In his
work a combination of reality and fantasy whose action takes place in Mexican
stage is presented. His characters represent and reflect the local color of the
place with its great socio-cultural issues intertwined with the fantasy world.
Rulfo's work, and especially Pedro Paramo is the watershed of Mexican
literature which marks the end of the revolutionary novel, allowing the
narrative experiments, such as the mid-century generation in Mexico and
writers belonging Latin American boom.
Fatherless at age seven, four years after his mother died. In 1929, he moved to
San Gabriel and lived with his grandmother and later in the orphanage Luis
Silva Luis Silva, currently Institute in the city of Guadalajara. In 1924 he began
studying primary. In 1933 he tried to enter the University of Guadalajara, but
being on strike, chose to move to Mexico City. He attended listener to Colegio
de San Ildefonso. In 1934 he began writing his literary works and to collaborate
in the magazine America.3
From 1938 he traveled in some regions on secondment of the Interior Ministry
and began publishing his most important stories in literary magazines.
From 1946 he was also dedicated to the photographic work, in which he made
remarkable compositions. He worked for the company Goodrich-Euzkadi of
1946-1952 as traveling salesman. In 1947 he married Clara Aparicio Angelina
Reyes, with whom he had four children (Claudia Berenice, Juan Francisco, Juan
Pablo and Juan Carlos). From 1954 to 1957 he was a collaborator of the
Papaloapan Commission and editor at the National Indian Institute in the City of
Mexico.4
Literary work
In 1930 he participated in the Mexico magazine. In 1945, he published the
magazine in Guadalajara Pan stories: Life is not serious in their things, we have
the land and Macario. Established in Mexico City in 1946 the story was
published Macario in America magazine. In 1948, the cost of the gossips and in
1950 Talpa and El Llano was published in flames. In 1951 the American
magazine published the story Tell them not to kill me! and in 1953 the
Economic Culture Fund joined The Burning Plain (to which belongs the tale We

have given the land) in the lyrics Mexicanas.5 collection In 1955 Pedro Paramo
was published.
The few works of Juan Rulfo, although consisting only of two books earned him
recognition throughout the Spanish-speaking world, which took shape in
important awards like the National Arts (1970) and the Prince of Asturias in
Spain ( 1983); It was translated into numerous languages. In 1953 came the
first, The Burning Plain, which included seventeen stories (some of which are
located in the mythical Comala), which are masterpieces of storytelling
production. In 1955, comes out Pedro Paramo, the first and only novel written
by Juan Rulfo, the event marks the end of a slow process that has occupied the
writer for years and demonstrates the richness and diversity of his literary
training. A formation that has deliberately assimilated the most diverse foreign
literature, from modern Scandinavian authors, to the Russian or American
productions.
Between 1956 and 1958 he wrote his second novel, The Golden Cockerel,
which was not published until 1980.

Uncle Celerino [edit]

Having concluded his two novels, Rulfo gave up writing books. In March 1974,
for a student dialogue in the Central University of Venezuela, Rulfo justified this
abandonment with the death of his uncle Celerino, who "talked around" 7 Uncle
Celerino really existed and, with it, many people ran Rulfo and he heard their
stories, which were considered fantasiosas.7
The writer Enrique Vila-Matas, in his book Bartleby & Co., describes this
justification as one of the more creative you have conocido.8 For escritorCsar
Leante, Rulfo wanted to avoid repeating evoke the cruelty and pain expressed
in El Llano llamas and Pedro Pramo.9 The essence of the explanation Leante
resembles Rulfo statement about that in writing Pedro Paramo, often thought
out of anxiety, because writing had to sufrimiento.10
Screenwriter [edit]
In 1956, film director Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez asked screenplays, in
collaboration with Juan Rulfo Jos Arreola made some of them. Many of his texts
have been based film productions. In 1960 he produced the film The
dispossession based on an idea of Rulfo. In 1964 The Golden Cockerel directed
by Roberto Gavaldn and adapted into a film by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel
Garca Mrquez.11
Film Corner Virgin directed by Alberto Isaac in 1972, is an adaptation of stories
and Anacleto Morones "The day of the collapse" included in The Burning Plain.

Awards and prizes [edit]

He was a tireless traveler and participated in several international conferences
and meetings, and won several awards. He received the Xavier Villaurrutia
Prize in 1956 for his novel Pedro Pramo.12 was awarded the National Prize for
Literature by the federal government of Mexico in 1970.13 In 1974 traveled to
Europe to participate in the Congress of Students of the University of Warsaw.
He was invited to join the presidential entourage traveling through Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Austria and France. On July 9, 1976, he was elected member of
the Mexican Academy of Language, he took possession of the chair XXXV on 25
September 1980.4 Rulfo won the Prince of Asturias Award in Spain in 1983.
Pedro Paramo [edit]
Main article: Pedro Paramo
Long Rulfo had a single published novel, Pedro Pramo. This work had a long
gestation. Rulfo said first conceived the idea of the novel before the age of
thirty years, and in two letters in 1947 to his girlfriend Clara Aparicio refers to
this work under the name Star next to the moon, saying it gave any job. Later,
he also declared that the stories of El Llano in flames were partly a way of
approaching his novel. In the last stage of writing it changes the name in
murmurs, a title that shows an apparent inspiration for the novel The Wild /
palm If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem of William Faulkner, though he always
acknowledged the influence of Irish literature and in particular the novel
independent people, Halldr Laxness, Icelandic. Thanks to a grant from the
Mexican Center of Writers may conclude between 1953 and 1954. In the latter
year, three journals publish the novel advances in 1955 and appears as a book.
The issue was two thousand copies, of which only half were sold, the rest were
presented. The novel was translated into several languages: German, Swedish,
English, French, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Finnish.
Critics warn immediately that this is a masterpiece, although there was no lack
accustomed to the nineteenth century novelistic schemes that become
disoriented in front of its innovative structure, reacting with embarrassment
readers. But more recent studies about as Initial reception of Pedro Paramo,
Jorge Cepeda, have made it clear that from the beginning, the recognition of
this work, in and out of Mexico, has been uninterrupted and growing. Studies
dedicated to Pedro Paramo are numerous and are increasing every year.
Pedro Paramo was highly regarded by authors like Jorge Luis Borges, who said:
Pedro Paramo is one of the best novels of the literature of Hispanic language,
and even in all of literature