Biography EssayAlthough Juan Rulfo's literary production was meager, it has had an impact on Latin-American narrative fiction that surpasses that of many prolific novelists or short-story writers. His...
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Although Juan Rulfo's literary production was meager, it has had an impact on Latin-American narrative fiction that surpasses that of many prolific novelists or short-story writers. His popularity, no...
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In the following excerpt, Harss stresses Rulfo's significance as a regionalist writer, contending that his short fiction successfully incorporates political and cultural themes without using pr...
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In the following essay, Lyon identifies and examines common motifs in The Burning Plain.
"Life's but a walking shadow . . ."
SHAKESPEARE, "Macbeth"
El llano en lla...
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In the essay below, Clinton offers a stylistic analysis of Rulfo's "Talpa."
One of the most important characteristics of Juan Rulfo's El llano en llamas is the way in which...
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In the following essay, Mancing examines Rulfo's use of literary allusion in "Diles que no me maten, " and asserts that Rulfo "lifts the story onto a broader plane of meani...
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In this excerpt, Borgeson delineates various stream of consciousness techniques used by Rulfo in his novel and short fiction, concluding that the author is able to transcend conventional linear narrat...
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In the following essay, Ramírez explores Rulfo's use of polarities, such as chaos and order, death and life, power and powerlessness, and love and hate, and asserts that this technique ill...
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In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Rulfo, Leal offers a thematic analysis of the more recent stories collected in his short story collection.
Some of the fifteen stories collected ...
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In this essay, Boldy examines the role of discourse in Rulfo's short fiction.
There is a point in most of the stories of El llano en llamas where an individual comes up against the discourse o...
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In the following essay, Fraser explores Rulfo's photographic vision of Mexico, contending that it underlies the visual qualities of the stories collected in The Burning Plain.
How do readers pe...
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Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo
