{"product_id":"the-plain-in-flames","title":"The Plain in Flames","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books--the novel \u003ci\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eEl llano en llamas\u003c\/i\u003e (1953). First translated into English in 1967 as \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Plain\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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 \u003ci\u003eEl llano en llamas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Juan Rulfo, Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44443648524524,"sku":"9780292743854","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780292743854.jpg?v=1708843796","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/the-plain-in-flames","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}