El llano en llamas

Name: Andrew Martinez

Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Book Title: El llano en llamas (The Burning Plain)
Author: Juan Rulfo (Sayula, Mexico, 1918 - Mexico City, 1986).
Year of Publication: 1953

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RECOMMENDATION:

Mexican writer; One book of short stories, The Burning Plain (1953), and a unique novel Pedro Páramo (1955), Juan Rulfon is enough to be recognized as one of the great masters of Latin American fiction of the twentieth century. His work, as brief as intense, occupies a landmark for quality position within the called Boom of American literature from the 60s, publishing phenomenon that gave the world the size of the new (and not so new, as in the if Rulfo) narrators of the continent.

SUMMARY:
El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plains) of Juan Rulfo, is a story of a boy called Deo, in which the narrator is part of it. First are at war, then he stays in a field about eight months caring for chickens (about four, one of the Jorseses was dying) and animals in general. When you are feeling useless comes Amancio Alcala, who made her notes and letters to Pedro Zamora to fight again, this time going in a better position than they had been before. Then derail a train and hence the government really angry Indians joined them (government) and only thought of killing them. All he did was flee the main character. Pedro Zamora died, say that again Mexico, behind a woman, and there you killed. The main character spent several years in prison for having the bad habit of stealing women. And that is how he met his wife of 14 years. Villagran all were dwarfs and graceless. At the end of the story the wife of the protagonist showing your child appears, the main character finds it very like him. She says, "but it's not bad people. It's not a murderer." All this was out of jail.