Voz viva de mexico juan rulfo biography
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Homero Aridjis
Mexican writer, activist, journalist, and ambassador
Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International.
Family and early life
[edit]Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico, on April 6, 1940, to a Greek father and a Mexican mother; he was the youngest of five brothers. His father fought in the Greek army during World War I and the Greco-Turkish War, when his family was forced to flee from their home in Tire, southeast of Smyrna, in Asia Minor. His mother grew up in Contepec amidst the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. After nearly losing his life at age ten in a shotgun accident, Aridjis became an avid reader and began to write poetry. In 1959 he was awarded a scholarship at the Rockefeller Foundation-supported Mexico City Writing Center (Centro Mexicano de Escritores), the youngest writer to have received the award in the center's 55-year history.
Aridjis has published 51 books of poetry and prose, many of them translated into a dozen languages. His achievements include: the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for best book of the year for Mirándola dormir, in 1964, the youngest writer to receive the prize; the Diana-Novedades Literary Pri
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Pedro Páramo / El llano en llamas
es difícil realizar una crítica de esta novela sin hacer ningún spoiler, aún así, lo voy a intentar.
En primer lugar, es interesante destacar que "Pedro Páramo" fue una de las pocas novelas que escribió Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (Juan Rulfo), se trató de un autor poco prolifero, aunque esta obra lo llevó a formar parte de la historia literaria.
Por un lado, la estructura exige un lector atento, capaz de reconstruir las diversas historias, ya que se encuentran fragmentadas. Además, no se divide en capítulos sino en fragmentos.
El argumento de la obra se centra en el regreso que realiza Juan Preciado a sus orígenes, después de la muerte de su madre Dolores, Juan Preciado decide buscar a su padre Pedro Páramo, al que no conoce. En una primera impresión parece que se trataría de una venganza o un reproche pero no es así, se ve movido por la curiosidad. Así, lo que hallará será su propio origen y destino en Comala, un pueblo desolado y yermo.
A la misma vez, la obra se puede dividir en dos niveles:
-En el primer nivel encontramos la histor
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A Companion stay with Juan Rulfo [1 ed.] 9781855663077
Table of table :
Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Life brook Literature
1. Mingle Llano gaping llamas
Community and authentic context
Fictitious context endure filiation
Interpretation stories: type introductory overview
Story chunk story
Unapproachable the stories to rendering novel
2. Pedro Páramo
Introduction
Principal portrayal lines
Patois in text and community
Narrative structures
Self contemporary others
Mid the original and rendering novella
3. Inventive gallo flit oro
4. Juan Rulfo, Photographer
Bibliography
Index
Citation preview
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