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Original Title:	El llano en llamas
ISBN:	9500718030 (ISBN13: 9789500718035)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Setting:	Mexico
Literary Awards:	Republic of Consciousness Prize Nominee for Longlist (2020)

El llano en llamas

Juan Rulfo

Paperback | Pages: 210 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 13103 Users | 782 Reviews

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Title	:	El llano en llamas
Author	:	Juan Rulfo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 210 pages
Published	:	May 28th 2000 by Sudamericana (first published 1950)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Classics

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An outstanding collection of snippets, ever-literary and uniquely blissfully Mexican. These stories are timeless. And it is precisely that quality, that of timelessness, which best describes the setting which pervades throughout these incendiary vignettes. The best are short enough to be parables--"We're Very Poor" (heart-wrenching), "The burning plain" (epic--a.k.a. where Cormack McCarthy got his prose) & "Anacleto Morones" (the anti "8 1/2") were my favorites. The leitmotifs are beautiful and meaningful--they are exceptional in many respects. Like strong, strenuous gulps of mescal from different times & areas, each one represents a reality that is harrowing & pinpoint specific to Mexico-- "el llano en llamas"...it still burns!

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Sparse stories about a an unforgiving Mexico where the sun always shines, but it burns you, and when it rains, it floods. "Diles que no me maten," "Oyes ladar los perros," and "El llano en llamas" were probably my favorites but it's a very consistently good, albeit depressing, collection of short stories. In terms of style, it's very easy to see how Rulfo moved from this to Pedro Paramo two years later.

We don't say what we are thinking. We lost the will to speak a while back. We lost it because of the heat. You would be happy to talk elsewhere, but it is hard here. You talk here and the words become hot in your mouth from the outside heat, and they dry on your tongue until the breath is gone. (2)After having greatly appreciated Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo, I decided to read his other major work, the short stories collected in The Plain in Flames, which took me surprisingly long to finish all

An outstanding collection of snippets, ever-literary and uniquely blissfully Mexican. These stories are timeless. And it is precisely that quality, that of timelessness, which best describes the setting which pervades throughout these incendiary vignettes. The best are short enough to be parables--"We're Very Poor" (heart-wrenching), "The burning plain" (epic--a.k.a. where Cormack McCarthy got his prose) & "Anacleto Morones" (the anti "8 1/2") were my favorites. The leitmotifs are beautiful

Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2020I finished this a couple of days ago, and I am still not sure how I feel about it. Rulfo's bleak and often violent portraits of hard lives on the Mexican llano or plain, told in simple, stark, spare language are undoubtedly impressively realised, but it is difficult to assess this new translation of a book that is 70 years old without having read the earlier translations aimed more at an American audience, or his more famous novella Pedro

5-stars for the short story MACARIO. I just read this for a writing class. It's told in a stream of conscious monologue by a "town idiot/retarded person?" who is always hungry and likes to bang his head against things because it is so hard. I have never read a story quite like this. I had to read it twice. I'd be interested to check out the rest of the book.

Enjoying this so far; it reminds me somewhat of Brian Evenson's Western/McCarthy-esque pieces, with the harsh landscapes, occasional bursts of violence, and unreliable narratives. The text is nice, but Kermit Oliver's drawings are really gorgeous.

the burning plain and other stories (el llano en llamas) is one of the two works juan rulfo published in his lifetime (the short novel pedro páramo being the other). while hardly prolific, the mexican author is widely considered one of latin america's most influential writers. the fifteen stories contained in this collection are all rather harsh and merciless, much like the landscape rulfo knew so well. set around the time of the mexican revolution, these tales convey everyday rural hardships,