Spanish

El narrador de esta novela regresa a dar clases en la universidad de su natal Cuévano después de muchos años de haber vivido en la capital. Su relato, entre la nostalgia y la ironía, es la evocación de un «intelectual de pueblo», con sus fiestas y días de campo, los pleitos de cantina y la relación con inquietantes mujeres. Estas ruinas que ves es una magnífica muestra de la capacidad de Jorge Ibargüengoitia para retratar la vida cotidiana con una claridad única.

A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality.