Juan Rulfo

"Fragment Pedro Páramo "

I came to Comala because I said my father lived here, one Pedro Páramo. My mother told me. "And I promised him that back as she died. I squeezed his hand in token that he would, as she was about to die and I promise everything plan. "Do not forget to go visit, "he recommended. It is called this way and this one. I'm sure that will give pleasure to meet you. "Then I could not help but say that she would, and tell him so I continued even after they took my hands break out of his hands working dead.

Even before I had said:

-Do not go to ask anything. Demand that our thing. What was required to me and never gave me ... Forgetting that we had, my son, expensive.

-I will, mother.

Juan Rulfo (Sayula, Jalisco, May 16, 1918 - Mexico City, January 71986), writer, screenwriter and Mexican photographer, belonging to the generation of 52. Rulfo's reputation rests on two small books: El llano en llamas, comprising seventeen short stories and published in 1953, and the novel Pedro Páramo, published in1955.

Been considered one of the most prominent Spanish-language writers of this period, together with Jorge Luis Borges, a survey by the Alfaguara publishing.

Among1926and 1929 he experiences several episodes of the Cristero rebellion. In 1953 achieved the first edition of El llano en llamas. The novel Pedro Páramo, Written in 1955, is considered by critics one of the masterpieces of world literature.

Borges dejó written:

"Pedro Páramo is one of the best novels of the Spanish language literature, even literature."

Y Susan Sontag also:

The novel Rulfo is not only one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century world literature, but one of the most influential books of this century.

Juan Rulfo was one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, which belonged to the literary movement called "magical realism" and his work presents a combination of reality and fantasy, whose action takes place in settings Americans, and its characters represent and reflect the quaintness of the place, with its great socio-cultural issues intertwined with the fantasy world.

Many of their texts have been the basis of films.

From 1946 he devoted himself to photographic work, which made significant compositions.

In 1947 he married Clara Aparicio, with whom he had four children.

He was a tireless traveler and participated in several international congresses and meetings, received awards including the National Prize for Literature in Mexico in 1970 and the Prince of Asturias Prize in Spain in 1983.

He died in Mexico in 1986.