The burned easy | Juan Rulfo

Rulfos stories revolve around what happened and what cannot be changed (in "The Man" and "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!"). Rulfos explores the mechanisms of power and faces of violence, often within the framework of torn family relationships ("The Barking Dogs," "Matilda Arkanjel's Inheritance"). Most of Rulfos characters are lonely and feel they are the guilty ones ("Macario," "The Hill of Companions"). As a result, they travel or wander without a real purpose ("Talba," "They Gave Us the Land"), and speak endlessly in front of foolish or nonexistent interlocutors ("Lofina," "Remember"). The skillful handling of the temporal structure and narrative voices means that the great originality of these stories and their author would be enough, with only one more novel (Pedro Paramo), to be among the greatest writers of his era.