![]() "Composed of seventy short fragments, the novel is pared down to the bone."(I)t would be hard to recommend a work more highly." - Laird Hunt, Review of Contemporary Fiction."With its dense interweaving of time, its routine interaction of the living and the dead, its surreal sense of the everyday, and with simultaneous - and harmonious - coexistence of apparently incompatible realities, this brief novel by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo strides through unexplored territory with a sure and determined step." - James Polk, The New York Times Book Review.(Unfortunately, neither of the English translations fully captures this taste and variety.)" - Carmen Boullosa, The Nation ![]() ![]() ![]() The text’s popular expressions, colloquialisms, idioms, sayings and proverbs give it an authentic lightness, a regional flavor, a very Mexican and picaresque salsita.
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