Burning Fields

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"Rulfo Trilogy": "The Burning Fields", "Pedro Páramo", "Golden Cockerel"

★ The founder of the magical realism novel genre, known as the "pioneer of the new Latin American novel", leading the trend of the Latin American "literary explosion"

★ Without Rulfo, there might not be "One Hundred Years of Solitude"——

The prototype of the classic opening of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was inspired by "Pedro Páramo"

In Rulfo's work, García Márquez "found the path he needed to find to continue writing books."

★ He left behind only a very limited number of works in his lifetime, but he is regarded as a literary idol by many writers——

García Márquez, Oe Kenzaburo, Le Clézio…they all loved Rulfo’s description of the wilderness;

Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Su Tong...they were all deeply influenced by Rulfo

★ Translated directly from Spanish by renowned translators/scholars Zhao Zhenjiang, Tu Mengchao, Zhang Weijie, and Jin Can, with a preface and introduction, and including valuable content such as García Márquez's long preface, the author's autobiography, and a dedication to the Rulfo Foundation

★ The cover of the series exclusively uses Rulfo's personal photography, showing the vast and charming land of Mexico through the eyes of the writer, suitable for both reading and reading

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The Burning Fields

◎ “If you ask me, this is a place where sadness builds its nest.”

◎ Despair is like a wildfire, burning the hard cowhide plain clean.

◎ Rulfo's first collection of short stories, seventeen stories about the last men and women on Latin American soil

【Content Introduction】

On the hard and cold land, the poor people are covered with dust on their shoulders, as light as a blade of grass.

Because of poverty, a cow could determine a girl's fate. He was given land, but there wasn't even a blade of grass to block the wind. The raindrops that fell were swallowed up by the thirsty earth, disappearing in an instant. He got into trouble for begging grass for the poor animals and had to hide for most of his life, but they still refused to let him go...

On the plains, the wind is dark and time stretches on. No one remembers time, only the silence contained within the loneliness of all things.

Death is a hope for all.

【Celebrity Reviews】

My deep acquaintance with the work of Juan Rulfo has finally led me to the path I needed to follow in order to continue writing my book... His work is only three hundred pages long, but it is almost as vast as the work of Sophocles as we know it, and I believe it will be as enduring.

—Gabriel García Márquez

Rulfo's works are short and concise, and can be read in a few days, but this is only the first step into his unknown territory. The exploration of Rulfo's world is a very moving journey in the history of literature.

—The Guardian

Juan Rulfo reflects on the last men and women of our land.

—Carlos Fuentes

Rulfo's writing reveals "a landscape that is not what we see with our eyes, but what lies behind our sight. A landscape that never speaks of itself but of something else, even something more distant. It is a metaphysical, a religious, a thought about man and the universe. (…) Rulfo is the only Mexican novelist who has given us an image of the Mexican landscape rather than a description of it."

—Octavio Paz

Rulfo's novel is not only a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, but also one of the most influential books of the 20th century.

—Susan Sontag

It was Juan Rulfo who truly opened the entrance to time for the first time. It was that mysterious, irrational, multi-time concept that transcends life and death and breaks logic that made him obsessed and pushed the writing of "regionalism" to a dreamlike and divine extreme.

——Jidi Maga

In writing Pedro Páramo and The Burning Fields, Juan Rulfo shows that writing never ends.

——Yu Hua

Rulfo's novels are like sad songs that wander through the Mexican countryside, with no beginning or end and confusing lyrics.

——Zhang Jiawei

2021-01-01

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