{"product_id":"the-burning-plain-paperback-softback-9781477329962","title":"The Burning Plain (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477329962","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Burning Plain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJuan Rulfo (Author), Douglas J. Weatherford (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477329962, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRulfo airs a worldview dark enough to make Cormac McCarthy look like P.G. Wodehouse...Spectral stories shot through with violence and sorrow, and beautiful for all that.\u003c\/div\u003e (Kirkus, Starred Review) \u003cdiv\u003eWeatherford’s fresh new translation of this seminal 1953 collection from Mexican writer Rulfo (1917–1986) lays bare the enigmatic potency of its stories about love, poverty, and violence…As characters trek across vast and arduous desert terrain, it can be hard to distinguish the real from the imaginary, which adds to the book’s power…This will please Rulfo’s devotees and earn him new ones.\u003c\/div\u003e (Publishers Weekly) \u003cdiv\u003eAmong contemporary writers in Mexico today [1959], Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals.\u003c\/div\u003e (New York Times Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003eWhat is remarkable about these sketches is that the characters are rendered with deep honesty; their faults are highlighted, celebrated in a way that is reminiscent of Chekhov's peasants.\u003c\/div\u003e (Publishers Weekly) \u003cdiv\u003eTo read Rulfo's stories is to inhabit Mexico and, in the process, to have Mexico inhabit you.\u003c\/div\u003e (NPR) \u003cdiv\u003eReading these stories during an election year where political rhetoric about violent immigrants at the US\/Mexico border is being used to rabble rouse America’s rural poor highlights how little the power structures have changed. Rulfo doesn’t provide any false hope. Instead, he allows Mexico’s agricultural working class to speak and act for themselves, painting a full and complex picture of economic refugees, no matter their origins, as if to say: You, too, would act like his characters if put in their place.\u003c\/div\u003e (Full Stop)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new translation of \u003ci\u003eEl Llano en llamas\u003c\/i\u003e, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1953, Juan Rulfo's \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Plain\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEl Llano en llamas\u003c\/i\u003e) has become Mexico's most significant and most translated collection of short fiction. Set largely in a distressed rural region of the state of Jalisco known as El Llano Grande (the burning plain of the title), the seventeen stories of this anthology trace the lives of characters in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917) and the Cristero Revolt (1926–1929). A father carries his fatally wounded son through the night in search of healing; a young girl's prized cow is swept away by a flood, along with her family's harvest; and a group of campesinos spend all day walking across the immense, barren Llano that the government has given them to farm. Through it all, Rulfo rejects moralizing and nostalgia, capturing instead the hushed reality of a landscape and people marked by violence and the weight of hardship and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRulfo's writing, often compared in importance to that of William Faulkner, Anton Chekov, and Gabriel García Marquez, is characterized by a laconic literary prose and the distinctive language heard throughout the rural communities of southern Jalisco. These qualities come alive in Douglas J. Weatherford's vibrant new rendition of Mexico's most celebrated collection. Seventy years after its first publication in Spanish, Rulfo's work speaks to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Among contemporary writers in Mexico today [1959], Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals.\"―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What is remarkable about these sketches is that the characters are rendered with deep honesty; their faults are highlighted, celebrated in a way that is reminiscent of Chekhov's peasants.\"―\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Translator’\u003cbr\u003es Note by Douglas J. Weatherford \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e They Have Given Us the Land \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e La Cuesta de las Comadres \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Because We’\u003cbr\u003ere So Poor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Man \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In the Early Morning \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Talpa \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Macario \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Burning Plain \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tell Them Not to Kill Me! \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Luvina \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Night They Left Him Alone \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Paso del Norte \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Remember \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e You Don’\u003cbr\u003et Hear Dogs Barking \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Day of the Collapse \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Legacy of Matilde ArcÁ\u003cbr\u003engel \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Anacleto Morones \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653248905496,"sku":"9781477329962","price":14.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-burning-plain-paperback-softback-9781477329962","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}