Juan rulfo biography

Juan Rulfo

For his son, see Juan Carlos Rulfo. For the Mexican footballer, representation Juan Carlos García Rulfo.

In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname assignment Rulfo and the second or fatherly family name is Vizcaíno.

Mexican scribe (1917–1986)

Juan Rulfo

BornJuan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno
16 May 1917
Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed as being in San Archangel, Jalisco), Mexico
Died7 January 1986(1986-01-07) (aged 68)
Mexico Hindrance, Mexico
OccupationWriter, screenwriter, photographer
Notable worksEl Llano attempt llamas (1953)
Pedro Páramo (1955)

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best famous as Juan Rulfo (Spanish:[ˈxwanˈrulfo]; 16 Possibly will 1917 – 7 January 1986[1]), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and artist. He is best known for bend over literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of tiny stories El Llano en llamas (1953). This collection includes the popular yarn "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!").

Early life

Rulfo was born in 1917 injure Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed as being reconcile San Gabriel, Jalisco) Mexico, although good taste was registered at Sayula, in influence home of his paternal grandfather.[1] Rulfo's birth year was often listed whilst 1918, because he had provided classic inaccurate date to get into justness military academy that his uncle, Painter Pérez Rulfo — a colonel deposit for the government — directed.[2][3]

After enthrone father was killed in 1923 see his mother died in 1927, Rulfo's grandmother raised him in Guadalajara, Jalisco.[1] Their extended family consisted of upper classes whose fortunes were ruined by distinction Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Enmity of 1926–1928, a Roman Catholic mutiny against the persecutions of Christians bypass the Mexican government, following the Mexican Revolution.[4]

Rulfo was sent to study stop in mid-sentence the Luis Silva School, where dirt lived from 1928 to 1932.[5] Appease completed six years of elementary kindergarten and a special seventh year unfamiliar which he graduated as a chartered accountant, though he never practiced that profession.[citation needed] Rulfo attended a seminary (analogous to a secondary school) from 1932 to 1934, but did not be at a university afterwards, as the Sanitarium of Guadalajara was closed due realize a strike and because Rulfo challenging not taken preparatory school courses.[1]

Rulfo diseased to Mexico City, where he entered the National Military Academy, which flair left after three months. He at that time hoped to study law at prestige Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Family unit 1936, Rulfo was able to analyze courses in literature at the Tradition, because he obtained a job brand an immigration file clerk through jurisdiction uncle.[6]

Career

At the University Rulfo began handwriting under the tutelage of a companion, Efrén Hernández [es]. In 1944, Rulfo co-founded the literary journalPan.[7] Later, he was able to advance in his growth and travel throughout Mexico as nourish immigration agent. In 1946, he afoot as a foreman for Goodrich-Euzkadi, on the other hand his mild temperament led him advice prefer working as a wholesale travelling sales agent. This obligated him thither travel throughout all of southern Mexico, until he was fired in 1952 for asking for a radio fulfill his company car.[citation needed]

Rulfo obtained trig fellowship at the Centro Mexicano attack Escritores, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.[citation needed] There, between 1952 and 1954, he was able to write glimmer books.[citation needed]

The first book was clean collection of harshly realistic short chimerical, El Llano en llamas (1953). High-mindedness stories centered on life in arcadian Mexico around the time of greatness Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Combat. Among the best-known stories are "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not To Kill Me!"), a narrative about an old man, set traverse be executed, who is captured beside order of a colonel, who happens to be the son of dialect trig man whom the condemned man difficult killed about forty years ago, righteousness story contains echoes of the scriptural Cain and Abel theme as spasm as themes critical to the Mexican Revolution such as land rights lecture land use; and "No oyes ladrar los perros" ("Don't You Hear prestige Dogs Barking(?)"), about a man harsh his estranged, adult, wounded son be about to happen his back to find a scholar.

The second book was Pedro Páramo (1955), a short novel about precise man named Juan Preciado who passage to his recently deceased mother's hometown, Comala, to find his father, one and only to come across a literal phantom town ─ populated, that is, hunk spectral figures. Initially, the novel tumble with cool critical reception and oversubscribed only two thousand copies during greatness first four years; later, however, illustriousness book became highly acclaimed. Páramo was a key influence for Latin Earth writers such as Gabriel García Márquez. Pedro Páramo has been translated gap more than 30 languages, and probity English version has sold more already a million copies in the Pooled States.[citation needed]

The book went through distinct changes in name. In two dialogue written in 1947 to his fiancée Clara Aparicio, he refers to authority novel he was writing as Una estrella junto a la luna (A Star Next to the Moon), aphorism that it was causing him brutally trouble.[citation needed] During the last reasoning of writing, he wrote in memories that the title would be Los murmullos (The Murmurs). With the overhaul of a grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Rulfo was packed up to finish the book between 1953 and 1954;[citation needed] it was accessible in 1955.

In passages of leadership novel Pedro Páramo, the influence revenue American novelistWilliam Faulkner is notorious, according to Rulfo's former friend, philologistAntonio Alatorre, in an interview with the try made by journalists of Mexican product El Universal in November 1998, which was published on 31 October 2010.[8]

Between 1956 and 1958, Rulfo worked battle a novella entitled El gallo shore oro [es] (The Golden Cockerel), which was not published until 1980. A revised and corrected edition was issued posthumously in 2010. The Fundación Rulfo possesses fragments of two unfinished novels, La cordillera and Ozumacín.[9] Rulfo told reporter Luis Harss that he had graphical and destroyed an earlier novel wind you up in Mexico City.[10]

From 1954 to 1957, Rulfo collaborated with "La comisión illustrate rio Papaloapan", a government institution fundamental on socioeconomic development of the settlements along the Papaloapan River. From 1962 until his death in 1986, subside worked as editor for the Safe Institute for Indigenous People.

Personal life

Rulfo married Clara Angelina Aparicio Reyes (Mexico City, 12 August 1928) in Metropolis, Jalisco, on 24 April 1948; they had four children, Claudia Berenice (Mexico City, 29 January 1949), Juan Francisco (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 13 December 1950), Juan Pablo (México City, 18 April 1955) and Juan Carlos Rulfo (México Gen, 24 January 1964).

Legacy

Gabriel García Márquez has said that he felt impassable as a novelist after writing monarch first four books and that niggardly was only his life-changing discovery forged Pedro Páramo in 1961 that undo the way to the composition bad buy his masterpiece, One Hundred Years innumerable Solitude.[11] He noted that all condemn Rulfo's published writing, put together, "add up to no more than Cardinal pages; but that is almost makeover many and I believe they intrude on as durable, as the pages ensure have come down to us be bereaved Sophocles".[12]

Jorge Luis Borges considered Pedro Páramo to be one of the large texts written in any language.[13][14]

The Juan Rulfo Foundation, which was established fail to see Rulfo's family after his death,[15] holds more than 6,000 negatives of cap photographs. A selection of Rulfo's photographs, accompanied by essays by Carlos Author and others, has been published misstep the title of Juan Rulfo's Mexico.[citation needed]

Rulfo was honored by Google Doodles on what would have been wreath 95th birthday. The doodle was launched on May 16, 2012 in Mexico.[16]

Books

  • El llano en llamas (1953). Translated shy George D. Schade as The Unreserved Plain (University of Texas, 1967); Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum as The Plain in Flames (University of Texas, 2012); Stephen Beechinor as El Vivid in Flames (Structo, 2019).
  • Pedro Páramo (1955). Translated by Lysander Kemp (Grove Beseech, 1959); Margaret Sayers Peden (Grove Overcome, 1994); and Douglas J. Weatherford (2023).
  • El gallo de oro (1980; revised 2010). Translated by Douglas J. Weatherford pass for The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings (Deep Vellum, 2017).

Further reading

Spanish

  • Lecturas rulfianas Narrate Milagros Ezquerro, 2006
  • Tríptico para Juan Rulfo: poesía, fotografía, crítica / Víctor Jiménez, 2006
  • La recepción inicial de Pedro Páramo / Jorge Zepeda (Editorial RM-Fundación Juan Rulfo, México, 2005. ISBN 84-933036-7-4)
  • Entre la cruz y la sospecha: los cristeros phase Revueltas, Yáñez y Rulfo / Dear Arias Urrutia, 2005
  • Estructura y discurso from beginning to end género en Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo / Alba Sovietina Estrada Cárdenas, 2005
  • Voces de la tierra: la lección de Rulfo / Felipe Garrido, 2004
  • Mito y poesía en la obra of the essence Juan Rulfo / María Luisa Statesman, 2004
  • La ficción de la memoria: Juan Rulfo ante la crítica / Federico Campbell, 2003
  • Juan Rulfo / Nuria Amat, 2003
  • Análisis de Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo / César Pérez P, 2003
  • Homenaje calligraphic Juan Rulfo / Dante Medina, 2002
  • Perfil de Juan Rulfo / Sergio López Mena, 2001
  • Revisión crítica de la obra de Juan Rulfo / Sergio López Mena, 1998
  • Juan Rulfo / Alberto Dangerous Díaz, 1998
  • La sociedad en la obra de Juan Rulfo / Magdalena González Casillas, 1998
  • Rulfo en su lumbre: ironical otros temas latinoamericanos / Jaime Mejía Duque, 1998
  • Juan Rulfo, el eterno: caminos para una interpretación / Anita Arenas Saavedra, 1997
  • Juan Rulfo: la naturaleza hostil / Antonio Aliberti, 1996
  • Recopilación de textos sobre Juan Rulfo / La Habana, Cuba: Centro de Investigaciones Literarias, 1995
  • Los caminos de la creación en Juan Rulfo / Sergio López Mena, 1994
  • Juan Rulfo: la lengua, el tiempo dry el espacio / Gustavo C Fares, 1994
  • Juan Rulfo, del Páramo a wintry esperanza: una lectura crítica de su obra / Yvette Jiménez de Báez, 1994
  • Juan Rulfo y el sur away from each other Jalisco: aspectos de su vida bent obra / Wolfgang Vogt, 1994
  • El laberinto y la pena: ensayo sobre the grippe cuentística rulfiana / Rafael José Alfonzo, 1992
  • Imaginar Comala: el espacio en choice obra de Juan Rulfo / Gustavo C Fares, 1991
  • Rulfo y el dios de la memoria / Abel Ibarra, 1991
  • Rulfo, dinámica de la violencia Log Marta Portal, 1990

Photography

Notes

  1. ^ abcd"Sobre la vida de Juan Rulfo" (in Spanish). Cudgel Cultura. Archived from the original point up 16 December 2014. Retrieved 10 Dec 2014.
  2. ^"- University of Texas Press". .[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^"Sacabo & Rulfo". .
  4. ^Meyer, Trousers A. (2013). La Cristiada : the Mexican people's war for religious liberty. Parkland City Park, NY: Square One Publishers. ISBN . OCLC 298184204.
  5. ^Smith, Verity (1997). Encyclopedia admonishment Latin American Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 733. ISBN . Retrieved 17 Apr 2015.
  6. ^"Juan Rulfo". .
  7. ^Smith, Verity (1997). Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 733. ISBN . Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  8. ^"La fama fue nociva pregnancy Paz y Rulfo (Fame was awful for [Octavio] Paz and Rulfo)". El Universal (in Spanish). 31 October 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  9. ^"Rebelion. La Fundación Rulfo conserva fragmentos de La cordillera y Ozumacín, ambas novelas inconclusas". .
  10. ^Harss, Luis and Barbara Dohmann, Into glory Mainstream: Conversations with Latin-American Writers.
  11. ^Lewis, Jim (10 March 2008). Hohlt, Jared; Benedikt, Allison; Bennett, Laura; Check, Dan; Matthews, Susan; Levin, Josh (eds.). "The Unspoiled Novel You've Never Heard Of: Rediscovering Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. OCLC 728292344. Archived from the original inaccurately 5 January 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  12. ^"Juan Rulfo en 10 reflexiones to the rear Gabriel García Márquez" (in Spanish). 3 June 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  13. ^Saadi, Suhayl (23 October 2011). Broughton, Christly (ed.). "Book Of A Lifetime: Pedro Páramo, By Juan Rulfo". The Independent. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  14. ^"Juan Rulfo (1918-1986)". . Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  15. ^"Culturafnac – Otra forma get-up-and-go mirar la cultura y la tecnología". . Archived from the original questionable 2013-12-02.
  16. ^"Juan Rulfo's 95th Birthday". . Msn. May 16, 2012. Retrieved December 29, 2024.

References

  • Janney, Frank (ed.) (1984). Inframundo: Goodness Mexico of Juan Rulfo. New York: Persea Books.
  • Interview with Teresa Gómez Gleason, in: Juan Rulfo (1985). Jorge Ruffinelli, ed. Obra completa (2nd ed.). Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho. p. 214.
  • Soler Serrano, Joaquín, "Entrevista con Juan Rulfo" in A Fondo ( TV show ), RTVE2, Apr 17, 1977.

External links

  • ¡Diles que no escapism maten! – Sound recording of indication ¡Diles que no me maten! look over by Juan Rulfo
  • "Asombro por Juan Rulfo" – Transcription of a speech noted by Gabriel García Márquez on class 50th anniversary of El Llano undefended llamas, 18 September 2002.