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Juan Rulfo was a Mexican author, with a very particular position in the spanish language litarature:
He wrote just two books:

• Pedro Páramo – A novel about a man’s quest for his heritage.

• El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain) – A tales compilation

That’s all what he published, but they are so interesting and very well written, that they were enough to put Rulfo in one of the more prestigious places in Literature.

I remember I heard a a radio interview with Gabriel García Marquez, where we was asked about the small contribution (just two books!) of Rulfo, he’s answer was simple: Anyone able to write such precious books, does not really need to write anything else.

“I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Páramo, lived here. It was my mother who told me. And I had prommised her that after she died I would see him.” First text from Pedro Páramo

“Don’t You Hear the Dogs Bark?” On the most famous tales in El llano en llamas