Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1917-1986) is perhaps the most discussed, praised, and imitated South American author of the 20th century.
All of his known literary work, which together barely exceeds 300 pages, is considered foundational, the origin of a new form of literature that gave rise to writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, one of his most famous and acknowledged debtors.
From Pablo Neruda to Carlos Fuentes, from Octavio Paz to Jorge Luis Borges and Juan Carlos Onetti, there is an abundance of testimonials of admiration from their peers and astonishment and bewilderment from critics.
In contrast to the enormous buzz surrounding Rulfo's scarce body of work, there is the silence in which the writer has disappeared since the publication, in 1955, of Pedro Páramo ...and until his death in January 1986. This silence was only interrupted by the sporadic revelation, by journalists, of the imminent "release" of a new soap opera. The mountain range, which ended up becoming mythical.
Attempts to explain this premature interruption in the writing of one of the most remarkable contemporary writers at the height of his fame have contributed to deepening the "Rulfo legend," with comparisons to that of Rimbaud not being lacking.
At the end of 1958 he wrote his second novel, The Golden Rooster Originally conceived as a screenplay and published as a book in 1980.
Winner of the National Literature Prize in 1970, Juan Rulfo is today a leading name in world literature, with his work translated into more than fifty languages.