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Pedro Páramo

2002-11-01 Fiction
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Release : 2002-11-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 215/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Pedro Páramo by : Juan Rulfo

Download or read book Pedro Páramo written by Juan Rulfo. This book was released on 2002-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows--a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. 49 photos.

The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings

2017 FICTION
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Release : 2017
Genre : FICTION
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings written by Juan Rulfo. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents Juan Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated.

The Fiction of Juan Rulfo

2012 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 388/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Fiction of Juan Rulfo by : Amit Thakkar

Download or read book The Fiction of Juan Rulfo written by Amit Thakkar. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years, analyzing a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection and also two of the main characters of hismasterpiece, Pedro Páramo. This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Páramo (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel. The book shows how Rulfo's works can be read as exercises in irony directed againstthe rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's use of irony. Successive Mexican governments promoted a vision of post-Revolutionary society founded on specific notions of ethnicity, family, nation, education, religion and rural politics. The author combines examination of the speeches, images and newspaper articles which disseminated this vision with incisive literary analyses of Rulfo's work. These analyses are informed both by his original theory of irony, based on "internal" and "external" referents, and by existing postcolonial theories, particularly those of Homi K. Bhabha. Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University.

Perfect

2010-01-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 011/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Perfect by : Natasha Friend

Download or read book Perfect written by Natasha Friend. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of thirteen-year-old girls, everything’s fine—at least on the surface. Isabelle Lee is a typical, wisecracking, middle-of-the-pack girl who just happens to be dealing with some big issues. Her father has died and no one—especially her mother—wants to talk about it. Meanwhile, Isabelle’s sister, who “used to be nine and charming,” has messed everything up by ratting Isabelle out to their mom about her eating disorder. At school, there’s Mr. Minx, the self-important (but really not bad) English teacher; Ashley Barnum, the prettiest girl around; and the lunchroom, where tables are turf in an all-eyes-open battle for social status. Isabelle has measured the distance to being cool and she thinks it’s long shiny hair, a toothpaste smile, and perfectly broken-in size-zero jeans. Perfect is the story of one girl’s attempt to cope with loss, define true friendship, and figure out the difference between appearances and reality.

The Plain in Flames

2012-09-01 Fiction
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Release : 2012-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Plain in Flames by : Juan Rulfo

Download or read book The Plain in Flames written by Juan Rulfo. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books—the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in 1967 as The Burning Plain, these starkly realistic stories create a psychologically acute portrait of poverty and dignity in the countryside at a time when Mexico was undergoing rapid industrialization following the upheavals of the Revolution. According to Ilan Stavans, the stories' "depth seems almost inexhaustible: with a few strokes, Rulfo creates a complex human landscape defined by desolation. These stories are lessons in morality. . . . They are also astonishing examples of artistic distillation." To introduce a new generation of readers to Rulfo's unsurpassable literary talents, this new translation repositions the collection as a classic of world literature. Working from the definitive Spanish edition of El llano en llamas established by the Fundación Juan Rulfo, Ilan Stavans and co-translator Harold Augenbram present fresh translations of the original fifteen stories, as well as two more stories that have not appeared in English before—"The Legacy of Matilde Arcángel" and "The Day of the Collapse." The translators have artfully preserved the author's "peasantisms," in appreciation of the distinctive voices of his characters. Such careful, elegiac rendering of the stories perfectly suits Rulfo's Mexico, in which people on the edge of despair nonetheless retain a sense of self, of integrity that will not be taken away.

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