"In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the Garcia Marquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, ..."
"This recently remastered melodrama, based on a novel by Juan Rulfo with a screenplay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes, is a classic of Mexican cinema. A poor man nurses an injured gamecock back to life and back into the ring with successful results. Wealth, fame, romance and temptation follow, as the man is lured into a questionable partnership with a greedy gambler and his mistress."
"Juan Rulfo was one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth century. His 1955 novel Pedro Paramo is considered one of the foundational classics of magic realism, predating One Hundred Years of Solitude by more than a decade. Lesser known are his haunting photographs of Mexico, which exhibit remarkable parallels to his prose. The photographs, mainly taken between 1945 and 1955, do not tell stories: they present thoughts. The ima ..."
"Presents eleven short stories in which reality and fantasy intertwine, including works by such modern Spanish and Latin American authors as Jorge Luis Borges, Cristina Fernâandez Cubas, Carlos Fuentes, and Ana Marâia Matute."
"Peter Burke. PRÓLOGO. El propósito de este libro es describir e interpretar la
cultura popular de la Europa moderna. «Cultura» es un término impreciso con
muchas definiciones, desde «redes de significados» hasta «prácticas y
representaciones». Hay especialistas que opinan que estaríamos mejor sin él.
Aquí optamos por definir a la cultura como un «sistema de significados, actitudes
y valores compartidos, así como de las formas simbó ..."
"Textos de Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz, Jorge Alberto Lozoya, Eduardo Rivero, Víctor Jiménez, Erika Billeter. Exposición: Espai Miserachs, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona. Del 20 de abril al 2 de septiembre de 2001"
Pedro Pramo (Paperback) by JuanRulfo Paperback, Published 2023 by Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-6093-5, ISBN: 0-8021-6093-X
"Now published in a new translation by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Weatherford, in this new edition Pedro Páramo cements its place as one of the must-read literary texts of the twentieth century."
"Embarking down a parched and dusty road, Juan goes to seek his father, Pedro Páramo, from whom they fled many years ago. The ruined town of Comala is alive with whispers and shadows."
"Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams and the nightly whispers of Comala's ghosts, there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Páramo and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul."
El Llano in flames (Paperback) by JuanRulfo 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Structo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9956320-1-1, ISBN: 0-9956320-1-4
"These stories have the quality of an oral testimony to harsh years and are delivered in a spare and exquisite voice."
Pedro Páramo by JuanRulfo 144 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage Espanol ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56653-3, ISBN: 0-525-56653-8
"Su madre moribunda le suplica que encuentre a su padre, Pedro Páramo, de quien habían huido años atrás, y por este motivo Juan Preciado parte hacia Comala."