The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings
- 228 pages
- 8 hours of reading
This work presents Juan Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated.
Juan Rulfo Book order
Juan Rulfo was an influential Mexican author whose works often delved into themes of rural life, loss, and identity. His prose, characterized by its sparseness and atmospheric language, captures the harsh realities and melancholic landscapes of the Mexican countryside. Rulfo's unique ability to weave a sense of the magical into realistic narratives created a timeless quality that resonates with readers globally. His writing continues to inspire and impact generations of authors with its raw honesty and profound insights into the human condition.
- 2017
- 2014
Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Páramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams and the nightly whispers of Comala's ghosts, there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Páramo and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul.
- 2012
A new translation of Juan Rulfo's remarkable 'El Llano en llamas'. Available in English for the first time outside North America.
- 2003
Wind in den Bergen
- 324 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Der mexikanische Schriftsteller Juan Rulfo wurde 1917 in Sayulo geboren. Schon im Alter von zehn Jahren wurde er zur Vollwaisen und verbrachte seine restliche Kindheit in einem Internat in Guadalajara. Nach zahlreichen Reisen durch Mexiko und kleinen Veröffentlichungen in Literaturzeitschriften erschien 1953 sein Erzählband Der Llano in Flammen und bald darauf sein Roman Pedro Páramo, der seinen Ruhm als einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller Lateinamerikas begründete. Der Roman gilt als ein Schlüsseltext der lateinamerikanischen Literatur. Nach seinen Veröffentlichungen zog sich Rulfo vom Schreiben zurück und arbeitete bis zu seinem Tod als Fotograf und als Herausgeber verschiedener Forschungsbände am Instituto Nacional Indigenista de México in Mexiko-Stadt, wo er 1986 verstarb.
- 2000
A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village. As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer. Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico nearly fifty years ago.
- 1994
With an Introduction by Gabriel García MárquezA new translation by Douglas J. WeatherfordIn this stunning masterpiece of the surreal, Juan Preciado sets out on a strange quest, bound by a promise to his dying mother. Embarking down a parched and dusty road, Juan goes to seek his father, Pedro Páramo, from whom they fled many years ago. The ruined town of Comala is alive with whispers and shadows. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of desires and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the tyranny of the Páramo family. Womaniser, overlord and murderer, Juan's notorious father retains an eternal grip over Comala. Its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past in an extraordinary chorus of sensory images, violent passions and unfathomable mysteries.
