A Companion to Juan Rulfo

A comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America. Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero Wars and within the interlink