خوان رولفو
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Juan Rulfo
"Rulfo" redirects here. For his son, see Juan Carlos Rulfo. For the Mexican footballer, see Juan Carlos García Rulfo.
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Rulfo*and the second or maternal family name is Vizcaíno.
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (Spanish:*[ˈxwan ˈrulfo] *audio*; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986[1]), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, El Llano en llamas (1953), a collection of short stories, and the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo. Fifteen of the seventeen short stories in El Llano en llamas have been translated into English and published as The Burning Plain and Other Stories. This collection includes the popular tale "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!").
Early life

Rulfo was born in 1917 in Apulco, Jalisco (although he was registered at Sayula, Jalisco), in the home of his paternal grandfather.[1] Rulfo's birth year was often listed as 1918, because he had provided an inaccurate date to get into the military academy that his uncle, David Pérez Rulfo — a colonel working for the government — directed.[3][4]

After his father was killed in 1923 and his mother died in 1927, Rulfo's grandmother raised him in the town of San Gabriel, Jalisco.[1] Their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were ruined by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War of 1926–1928, a Roman Catholic integralist revolt against the government of Mexico following the Mexican Revolution.[citation needed]

Rulfo was sent to study in the Luis Silva School, where he lived from 1928 to 1932.[5] He completed six years of elementary school and a special seventh year from which he graduated as a bookkeeper, though he never practiced that profession.[citation needed] Rulfo attended a seminary (analogous to a secondary school) from 1932 to 1934, but did not attend a university afterwards, as the University of Guadalajara was closed due to a strike and because Rulfo had not taken preparatory school courses.[1]

Rulfo moved to Mexico City, where he entered the National Military Academy, which he left after three months. He then hoped to study law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In 1936, Rulfo was able to audit courses in literature at the University, because he obtained a job as an immigration file clerk through his uncle.[6]

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I wanted to*induct one work of Mexican literature into the pantheon of eternal greats, and I believe the greatest Mexican novel ever written is*Pedro Páramo*by Juan Rulfo. A slim but infinite novel,*Pedro Páramo*changed the way that literature is written, read, processed, and remembered when it was*published in*1955. Any writer who has read this book has found new inspiration for the way that they can construct their own narratives. Rulfo is a master, breaking with antiquated notions of time and space to give us a story of eternal life that has impacted the way the entire world reads and writes, from Garcia Marquez, who claimed that this novel is what inspired him to create his own version of magical realism, down to the Spanish/Argentinian Andrés Neuman, whose majestic*Traveler of the Century*pulls from the transcendence of*Pedro Páramo*in a major way towards building a new form of the great novel. This is the book that changed everything, if you have never read it, let it change you