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About Juan Rulfo
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (May 16, 1917–January 7, 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer.
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“Nothing can last forever; there is no memory, however intense, that does not fade.”
“The living are those who are a shame. Don't you think so? The dead do not give war to anyone; but what is alive, they do not find how to mortify the lives of others. If they even kill each other to end the hearts of others. With that I tell you everything. On the other hand, we must not hate the dead. They are the great thing. Are good. The best beings on earth.”
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Kathleen Alcalá Preface on Juan Rulfo
“I owe a special debt to Juan Rulfo, the Mexican writer who gave voice to the blood-soaked earth of the Mexican Revolution and a people who endure.”
Isabel Allende on Juan Rulfo
“I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my time the work of Latin American writers was not well distributed, even on our continent. In Chile it was very hard to read other writers from Latin America. My greatest influences have been all the great writers of the Latin American Boom in literature: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Borges, Paz, Rulfo, Amado, etc.”
Denise Chávez interview on Juan Rulfo
“Among the Mexican writers I prefer Juan Rulfo for the wonderful mystery and magic of his writings, all those disembodied voices.”
Sandra Cisneros on Juan Rulfo
“A whole generation of the Chicano writers were influenced by the Latin American male boom because that's all we got. Borges was an influence, but the ones I really stay with are Manuel Puig and Juan Rulfo. Rulfo obviously for his rhythms and what he's doing with voices.”
About Juan Rulfo
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (May 16, 1917–January 7, 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer.