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Juan Rulfo
Sayula (Jalisco), Mexico
Archival Overview
Mexican author whose sparse output of one novel, Pedro Paramo, and one short-story collection, The Burning Plain, stands among the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world literature.
Biographical Record
Orphaned during the Cristero War, Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) captured the barren silence, ghosts, and violence of post-revolutionary rural Mexico. In 1953, he published 'El llano en llamas' ('The Burning Plain'), followed in 1955 by 'Pedro Paramo'—a ghost story of a son seeking his father in the spectral town of Comala.
'Pedro Paramo' directly inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. After publishing these two slender masterpieces, Rulfo wrote virtually no more fiction, dedicating himself to indigenous anthropology and photography.
Key Life Milestones
Publication of 'The Burning Plain'
Published sixteen stark short stories depicting rural violence and despair in Jalisco.
Publication of 'Pedro Paramo'
Published the haunting ghost novel that transformed 20th-century magical and psychological realism.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialMexico City, Mexico