Inframundo: The Mexico of Juan Rulfo (English and Spanish Edition)

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, El Llano en llamas (1953), a collection of short stories, and the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, but their impact on the development of modern literature in Latin America has been enormous. Rulfo's words seem to come from the inner life of his people like whispers, telling us terrible secrets with brazen simplicity. The haunted scenario of Rulfo's Mexico - an almost lunar landscape - spreads before us in front of the author's lens in INFRAMUNDO. Here we sense the drama of his Jalisco, the drama of dispossession, perhaps the ultimate fate of all mankind. Rulfo's subjects, like his characters, are prematurely stripped of land, identity, even life itself, by forces which the author has embodied, yet wisely left unexplained. The reader-viewer of this work will participate in his unique vision of his land, and enjoy as well the lively characterizations of the author by a handful of his friends, themselves important Latin American writers. They are Jose Emilio Pacheco, Elena Ponia Towska, Fernando Benitez, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.