![]() Rulfo, like many other Latin American writers of his time, greatly admired his American predecessor, but he went a step further to create the atemporal perspective of "wandering souls" whose raw emotions he conveys in strong visual images. Behind the realistic, clearly Mexican topo-graphic, social, and cultural elements, however, a strong mythical reality imbues Rulfo's unique world, recalling William Faulkner's phantasmagoric landscape. ![]() The stories of The Burning Plain fall into the category of regionalism, a prominent subgenre in twentieth-century Latin American literature. "Talpa," a tale of adultery, death, and remorse, is an integral part of Rulfo's Dantesque scheme. ![]() Like his landmark novel Pedro Páramo (1955), the 1953 story collection The Burning Plain and Other Stories ( El llano en llamas) depicts characters doomed to roam an arid landscape while bearing the weight of their sins. ![]() A segment of a distinguished but small literary production, the story "Talpa" contains many elements that characterize the fiction of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. ![]()
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