[Curiosities] Seven works to remember the legacy of Juan Rulfo

[Noticias ALEJANDRO]

 

These characteristics reach their highest point in his novel with the greatest connotation, and therefore, one of the most admired in Mexican and Latin American literature, "Pedro Páramo."

This creation is about a man named Juan Preciado who travels to the hometown of his recently deceased mother, Comala, to find his father. But he only comes across a ghost town, full of spectral figures.

The work has been translated into more than 30 different languages and has represented a key influence on Latin American writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, who stated: “If I had written Pedro Páramo I would not (…) ever write again in my life.”

 

 

On the other hand, "El gallo de oro" is a short novel written between 1956 and 1958, but published for the first time in 1980, which tells the story of the passionate love between Dionisió Pinzón, a cockerel, and Bernarda Cutiño (the Caponera). , palenque singer, while they wander from fair to fair through the center of the country. It is a completely rural work, a characteristic that Rulfo manages to convey with his own language and sound.

"Air of the hills. Letters to Clara" becomes an ode to love from those years in which Juan Rulfo used the epistolary genre to release all his feelings to the woman of his life and mother of his children.

These are foundational to his writing, the fruit of the fire of his inspiration and they served as a calm for his impetus. Through them runs the feeling of the greatest and most important literary artist in Mexico.

 

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