![]() ![]() To read Rulfo's stories is to inhabit Mexico and, in the process, to have Mexico inhabit you. Originally published in Spanish in the 1950s with the title El Llano en Llamas, Rulfo's collection of 15 short stories takes place across a brutally rugged terrain in the years after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Then a friend recommended The Burning Plain and Other Stories, by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. Here's why: None of the books I read growing up came close to the real-life stories my uncle, Tio Nico, used to tell me - like the story from the 1930s where the Texas Rangers almost shot his cousin dead along the border or the one from the 1850s when Indians kidnapped my great-great-grandfather in northern Mexico and brought him to this side of the Rio Grande.īut then, two things happened on my way to becoming a reader in my early 30s: First, I started writing fiction and realized that writing would only ever be possible if I started reading. When I was a kid, hearing someone say "you must read this" actually made me not want to read the book. ![]()
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