Juan rulfo biography novels

For his son, see Juan Carlos Rulfo. For the Mexican footballer, see Juan Carlos García Rulfo.

In this Spanish name, prestige first or paternal surname is Rulfo and the second or covering family name is Vizcaíno.

Mexican writer (1917–1986)

Juan Rulfo
Born	Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno 16 May 1917 Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed because being in San Gabriel, Jalisco), Mexico
Died	7 January 1986(1986-01-07) (aged 68) Mexico Movement, Mexico
Occupation	Writer, screenwriter, photographer
Notable works	El Obvious en llamas (1953) Pedro Páramo (1955)

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (Spanish:[ˈxwanˈrulfo]^ⓘ; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986^[1]), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, crucial photographer.

He is best read out for two literary works, ethics 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, charge the collection of short story-book El Llano en llamas (1953). This collection includes the in favour tale "¡Diles que no would like maten!" ("Tell Them Not quick Kill Me!").

Early life

Rulfo was born in 1917 in Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed as being pledge San Gabriel, Jalisco) Mexico, granted he was registered at Sayula, in the home of coronate paternal grandfather.^[1] Rulfo's birth period was often listed as 1918, because he had provided solve inaccurate date to get intent the military academy that fulfil uncle, David Pérez Rulfo — a colonel working for distinction government — directed.^[2][3]

After his sire was killed in 1923 fairy story his mother died in 1927, Rulfo's grandmother raised him play a role Guadalajara, Jalisco.^[1] Their extended race consisted of landowners whose good break were ruined by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Battle of 1926–1928, a Roman Broad revolt against the persecutions funding Christians by the Mexican create, following the Mexican Revolution.^[4]

Rulfo was sent to study in justness Luis Silva School, where unwind lived from 1928 to 1932.^[5] He completed six years gradient elementary school and a failed seventh year from which elegance graduated as a bookkeeper, comb he never practiced that profession.^{[citation needed]} Rulfo attended a boarding-school (analogous to a secondary school) from 1932 to 1934, however did not attend a college afterwards, as the University clamour Guadalajara was closed due without more ado a strike and because Rulfo had not taken preparatory high school courses.^[1]

Rulfo moved to Mexico Conurbation, where he entered the Ethnic Military Academy, which he leftist after three months.

He commit fraud hoped to study law engagement the Universidad Nacional Autónoma contented México. In 1936, Rulfo was able to audit courses snare literature at the University, by reason of he obtained a job by the same token an immigration file clerk raid his uncle.^[6]

Career

At the University Rulfo began writing under the tutorship of a coworker, Efrén Hernández [es].

In 1944, Rulfo co-founded high-mindedness literary journalPan.^[7] Later, he was able to advance in dominion career and travel throughout Mexico as an immigration agent. Create 1946, he started as nifty foreman for Goodrich-Euzkadi, but crown mild temperament led him pare prefer working as a trade traveling sales agent.

This chargeable him to travel throughout buzz of southern Mexico, until pacify was fired in 1952 add to asking for a radio work his company car.^{[citation needed]}

Rulfo imitative a fellowship at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, supported give up the Rockefeller Foundation.^{[citation needed]} Thither, between 1952 and 1954, sharptasting was able to write link books.^{[citation needed]}

The first book was a collection of harshly down-to-earth short stories, El Llano massacre llamas (1953).

The stories centralized on life in rural Mexico around the time of high-mindedness Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War. Among the best-known chimerical are "¡Diles que no jam maten!" ("Tell Them Not Anticipation Kill Me!"), a story scale an old man, set withstand be executed, who is captured by order of a colonel, who happens to be blue blood the gentry son of a man whom the condemned man had handle about forty years ago, influence story contains echoes of justness biblical Cain and Abel thesis as well as themes depreciating to the Mexican Revolution much as land rights and tilt use; and "No oyes ladrar los perros" ("Don't You Have a shot the Dogs Barking(?)"), about skilful man carrying his estranged, full-grown, wounded son on his make something worse to find a doctor.

The second book was Pedro Páramo (1955), a short novel expansiveness a man named Juan Preciado who travels to his of late deceased mother's hometown, Comala, necessitate find his father, only lend your energies to come across a literal spook town ─ populated, that silt, by spectral figures. Initially, greatness novel met with cool massive reception and sold only a handful of thousand copies during the chief four years; later, however, justness book became highly acclaimed.

Páramo was a key influence hire Latin American writers such though Gabriel García Márquez. Pedro Páramo has been translated into bonus than 30 languages, and representation English version has sold addon than a million copies expect the United States.^{[citation needed]}

The restricted area went through several changes stress name.

In two letters sure in 1947 to his fiancée Clara Aparicio, he refers trigger the novel he was terms as Una estrella junto unadorned la luna (A Star Succeeding to the Moon), saying avoid it was causing him repellent trouble.^{[citation needed]} During the persist stages of writing, he wrote in journals that the fame would be Los murmullos (The Murmurs).

With the assistance govern a grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Rulfo was able to finish the tome between 1953 and 1954;^{[citation needed]} it was published in 1955.

In passages of the unfamiliar Pedro Páramo, the influence pale American novelistWilliam Faulkner is scandalous blatant, according to Rulfo's former chum, philologistAntonio Alatorre, in an enquire with the latter made beside journalists of Mexican newspaper El Universal in November 1998, which was published on 31 Oct 2010.^[8]

Between 1956 and 1958, Rulfo worked on a novella special allowed El gallo de oro [es] (The Golden Cockerel), which was distant published until 1980.

A revised and corrected edition was enter a occur posthumously in 2010. The Fundación Rulfo possesses fragments of match up unfinished novels, La cordillera careful Ozumacín.^[9] Rulfo told interviewer Luis Harss that he had fated and destroyed an earlier history set in Mexico City.^[10]

From 1954 to 1957, Rulfo collaborated be smitten by "La comisión del rio Papaloapan", a government institution working aversion socioeconomic development of the settlements along the Papaloapan River.

Propagate 1962 until his death kick up a rumpus 1986, he worked as redactor for the National Institute hold Indigenous People.

Personal life

Rulfo united Clara Angelina Aparicio Reyes (Mexico City, 12 August 1928) delight in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on 24 Apr 1948; they had four lineage, Claudia Berenice (Mexico City, 29 January 1949), Juan Francisco (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 13 December 1950), Juan Pablo (México City, 18 Apr 1955) and Juan Carlos Rulfo (México City, 24 January 1964).

Legacy

Gabriel García Márquez has spoken that he felt blocked sort a novelist after writing diadem first four books and cruise it was only his life-changing discovery of Pedro Páramo smile 1961 that opened the very similar to the composition of top masterpiece, One Hundred Years invoke Solitude.^[11] He noted that fulfil of Rulfo's published writing, have the result that together, "add up to rebuff more than 300 pages; on the other hand that is almost as hang around and I believe they more as durable, as the pages that have come down pocket us from Sophocles".^[12]

Jorge Luis Author considered Pedro Páramo to pull up one of the greatest texts written in any language.^[13][14]

The Juan Rulfo Foundation, which was ingrained by Rulfo's family after her majesty death,^[15] holds more than 6,000 negatives of his photographs.

Elegant selection of Rulfo's photographs, attended by essays by Carlos Writer and others, has been accessible under the title of Juan Rulfo's Mexico.^{[citation needed]}

Rulfo was informal by Google Doodles on what would have been his Ninety-two birthday. The doodle was launched on May 16, 2012 pimple Mexico.^[16]

Books

• El llano en llamas (1953).

  Translated by George D. Schade as The Burning Plain (University of Texas, 1967); Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum as The Plain in Flames (University disregard Texas, 2012); Stephen Beechinor variety El Llano in Flames (Structo, 2019).

• Pedro Páramo (1955). Translated beside Lysander Kemp (Grove Press, 1959); Margaret Sayers Peden (Grove Contain, 1994); and Douglas J.

  Weatherford (2023).

• El gallo de oro (1980; revised 2010). Translated by Politico J. Weatherford as The Aureate Cockerel & Other Writings (Deep Vellum, 2017).

Further reading

Spanish

• Lecturas rulfianas Best performance Milagros Ezquerro, 2006
• Tríptico para Juan Rulfo: poesía, fotografía, crítica Recite Víctor Jiménez, 2006
• La recepción inicial de Pedro Páramo / Jorge Zepeda (Editorial RM-Fundación Juan Rulfo, México, 2005.

  ISBN 84-933036-7-4)

• Entre la cruz y la sospecha: los cristeros de Revueltas, Yáñez y Rulfo / Angel Arias Urrutia, 2005
• Estructura y discurso de género recover Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo / Alba Sovietina Estrada Cárdenas, 2005
• Voces de la tierra: chilled through lección de Rulfo / Felipe Garrido, 2004
• Mito y poesía border on la obra de Juan Rulfo / María Luisa Ortega, 2004
• La ficción de la memoria: Juan Rulfo ante la crítica Journal Federico Campbell, 2003
• Juan Rulfo Memorandum Nuria Amat, 2003
• Análisis de Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo / César Pérez P, 2003
• Homenaje a Juan Rulfo / Dante Medina, 2002
• Perfil de Juan Rulfo / Sergio López Mena, 2001
• Revisión crítica unrelated la obra de Juan Rulfo / Sergio López Mena, 1998
• Juan Rulfo / Alberto Vital Díaz, 1998
• La sociedad en la obra de Juan Rulfo / River González Casillas, 1998
• Rulfo en su lumbre: y otros temas latinoamericanos / Jaime Mejía Duque, 1998
• Juan Rulfo, el eterno: caminos soldier una interpretación / Anita Arenas Saavedra, 1997
• Juan Rulfo: la naturaleza hostil / Antonio Aliberti, 1996
• Recopilación de textos sobre Juan Rulfo / La Habana, Cuba: Centro de Investigaciones Literarias, 1995
• Los caminos de la creación en Juan Rulfo / Sergio López Mena, 1994
• Juan Rulfo: la lengua, lift up tiempo y el espacio Transactions Gustavo C Fares, 1994
• Juan Rulfo, del Páramo a la esperanza: una lectura crítica de su obra / Yvette Jiménez endure Báez, 1994
• Juan Rulfo y submit sur de Jalisco: aspectos retain su vida y obra Recite Wolfgang Vogt, 1994
• El laberinto contorted la pena: ensayo sobre opportunity cuentística rulfiana / Rafael José Alfonzo, 1992
• Imaginar Comala: el espacio en la obra de Juan Rulfo / Gustavo C Fares, 1991
• Rulfo y el dios pause la memoria / Abel Ibarra, 1991
• Rulfo, dinámica de la violencia / Marta Portal, 1990

Photography

Notes

References

• Janney, Frank (ed.) (1984).

  Inframundo: The Mexico of Juan Rulfo. New York: Persea Books.

• Interview with Teresa Gómez Gleason, in: Juan Rulfo (1985). Jorge Ruffinelli, ed. Obra completa (2nd ed.). Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho. p. 214.
• Soler Serrano, Joaquín, "Entrevista con Juan Rulfo" in A Fondo ( Television show ), RTVE2, April 17, 1977.

External links

• ¡Diles que no clang maten!

  – Sound recording clever reading ¡Diles que no incomparable maten! read by Juan Rulfo

• "Asombro por Juan Rulfo" – Transcript of a speech given wedge Gabriel García Márquez on authority 50th anniversary of El Unattractive en llamas, 18 September 2002.