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Juan Rulfo
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The
Burning Plain and Other Stories - Juan Rulfo
(El llano en llamas) (1953)
Translated by George Schade
Two
of the best-known stories in this collection are ¡Diles
que no me maten! (Tell Them Not To Kill Me!),
about an old man, set to be executed, whose prison guard
happens to be the son of a man he killed; and ¿No
oyes ladrar los perros? (Don't You Hear the Dogs
Bark?), about a man carrying his estranged, adult, wounded
son on his back to find a doctor.
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Juan Rulfo (1917 –
1986) was a Mexican author and photographer. One of Latin America's
most esteemed authors, Rulfo's reputation rests on two slim
books, the novel Pedro Páramo (1955), and El
llano en llamas (1953,fifteen of the seventeen short stories
translated into English The Burning Plain and Other Stories),
a collection of short stories that includes his admired tale
¡Diles que no me maten! (Tell Them Not to Kill
Me!).
He
was named alongside Jorge Luis Borges as the best Spanish-language
writer of the 20th century in a poll conducted by Editorial
Alfaguara.
Gabriel
García Márquez noted that all of Rulfo's
published writing, put together, "add up to no
more than 300 pages; but that is almost as many, and
I believe they are as durable, as the pages that have
come down to us from Sophocles."
A
heavy smoker, Juan Rulfo died, aged 68, of lung cancer
in Mexico City in 1986.
Source
- Wikipedia
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