Una mentira que dice la verdad: conferencias, ensayos, entrevistas y otros textos
essays-and-interviews · First published 2022
Author guide
Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. His principal fiction consists of the short-story collection El llano en llamas, the novel Pedro Páramo, and the novella El gallo de oro. He also published cinematic texts, essays, letters, notebooks, literary criticism, and photographic books, many of the latter appearing posthumously or in collaboration with other editors and writers.
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essays-and-interviews · First published 2022
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The foundational short-story collection and the most accessible entry to Rulfo's fictional world.

His landmark novel and central work of twentieth-century Mexican literature.
Outside the series
novel · 1955
Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale…
novella · 1980
Obra considerada por Juan Rulfo como una “novela” o un “cuento”. Las primeras noticias llegaron a la prensa en octubre de 1956, en el contexto de la producción cinematográfica. En enero de 1959 se registró el texto mecanografiado, a…
short-story-collection · 1953
El "Llano en llamas" es hoy un clásico de la literatura mexicana e hispanoamericana, y probablemente uno de los volúmenes de cuentos más traducido a otros idiomas en el mundo entero. Obra aparentemente sencilla resulta, sin embargo,…
photography-and-essay-book · 1983
speech-pamphlet · 1987
essay-collection · 2011
photography-and-essay-book · 2014
essays-and-interviews · 2022
screenplay-collection · 1979
co-authored-film-book · 2014
chapbook · 1981
Dramatic and realistic story about the inevitable destiny of a Mexican peasant fighting for survival in a characteristically adverse poor world. Magnificient illustrations were inspired by Juan Rulfos photography legacy.
notebooks · 1994
photography-book · 1995
epistolary-collection · 2000
photography-book · 2001
photography-and-literary-texts · 2002