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Juan Rulfo Books in Order

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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Juan Rulfo's Newest Book

Una mentira que dice la verdad: conferencias, ensayos, entrevistas y otros textos

essays-and-interviews · First published 2022

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Cover of El llano en llamas

El llano en llamas

The foundational short-story collection and the most accessible entry to Rulfo's fictional world.

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Pedro Páramo

His landmark novel and central work of twentieth-century Mexican literature.

Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (2)
  1. Pedro Páramo

    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…

  2. El gallo de oro

    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 fiction (1)
  1. El llano en llamas

    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,…

Essays and speeches (6)
Plays (1)
  1. El gallo de oro y otros textos para cine

    screenplay-collection · 1979

Collaborations (1)
  1. La fórmula secreta

    co-authored-film-book · 2014

Other (6)
  1. ¡Diles que no me maten!

    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.

  2. Los cuadernos de Juan Rulfo

    notebooks · 1994

  3. Aire de las colinas: cartas a Clara

    epistolary-collection · 2000

  4. México: Juan Rulfo fotógrafo

    photography-book · 2001

  5. Juan Rulfo: letras e imágenes

    photography-and-literary-texts · 2002