The llano on fire

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The Llano in Flames (Spanish El Llano en llamas ) is a collection of short stories by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo . It was first published continuously in Spanish in 1953 and appeared in German in 1964 in a translation by Mariana Frenk-Westheim . The two short stories The Day It Shook and The Legacy of Matilde Arcángel were not included in the first editions of the collection and were added later. The story Paso del Norte was also left out in some editions. Various stories in the volume had previously appeared in the magazines América and Pan , where they were reprinted together with photographs by the author .

content

The collection contains the following short stories:

  • Macario.
  • We were given land (span. Nos han dado la tierra ).
  • We are very poor (span. Es que somos muy pobres ).
  • The man (span. El hombre ).
  • At daybreak (span. En la madrugada ).
  • Talpa.
  • The Llano on fire (Spanish El Llano en llamas ).
  • Tell them not to kill me (span. ¡Diles que no me maten! )
  • Luvina.
  • The night when he was left alone (Spanish: La noche que lo dejaron solo ).
  • The legacy of Matilde Arcángel (Spanish La herencia de Matilde Arcángel ).
  • Remember! (Spanish Acuérdate ).
  • Can't you hear the dogs barking? (span. No oyes ladrar los perros ).
  • Anacleto Morones.
  • The day it shook (Spanish: El día del derrumbe ).
  • The dump of the godmothers (Spanish La Cuesta de las Comadres ).
  • Paso del Norte.

Quotes about the work

  • I know of no narrative that is more perfectly constructed, more moving and more heartfelt. It's hard to find a narrative that combines feeling, intelligence, and expression into literary prowess. - Elias Canetti on Tell them not to kill me.
  • The day after Pedro Páramo , I read The Llano on Fire and my admiration continued. Much later, in the waiting room of a doctor's office, I found a magazine with another exuberant masterpiece: The Legacy of Matilde Arcángel. For the rest of that year I couldn't read any other author because all the others seemed too small to me. - Gabriel García Marquez
  • With these two books, Juan Rulfo became a legend. - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio on Pedro Páramo and The Llano in Flames.

literature

  • Juan Rulfo: The Llano on fire . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1964; New edition: Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 978-3-518-01504-9 .
  • Juan Rulfo: El Llano en llamas . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City 1953; New edition: Catedra, Madrid 2006, ISBN 978-8-437-60512-8 .
  • Juan Rulfo: Voz Del Author (Entre Voces) . Fondo de Cultura Económica USA, San Diego 1997, ISBN 978-9-681-67941-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biblioteca del Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Baja California / Cuentos y Fábulas / Juan Rulfo: Diles que no me maten ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved December 14, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cobachbc.edu.mx
  2. ↑ Gabriel García Márquez: Nostalgia de Juan Rulfo ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved December 14, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letras.s5.com
  3. ↑ Entrevista a Víctor Jiménez: “Publicamos un caleidoscopio de lecturas sobre Juan Rulfo” (Spanish), accessed on December 14, 2010