Comparing Juan Rulfo's Writing to Photographic Snapshots
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Comparing Juan Rulfo's Writing to Photographic Snapshots
Bay Area Book Festival - Barbro Osher Theater
Gabriel Garcia Marquez compared him to Sophocles in terms of influence. Susan Sontag wrote that Juan Rulfo's single novel, 'Pedro Páramo,' is "one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature." Jorge Luis Borges called the novel a work of genuis. And yet Juan Rulfo, mantled as the father of magic realism, is much less well known than the many writers who have looked to him for inspiration. What made Rulfo so extraordinary, and how has his influence reverberated throughout world literature? On the 100th anniversary of Rulfo's birth in Jalisco, Mexico, this international panel of writers and artists, moderated by Jane Ciabattari, board member of the National Book Critics Circle, introduces Rulfo to new readers and celebrates his legacy.
Bay Area Book Festival - Barbro Osher Theater
Gabriel Garcia Marquez compared him to Sophocles in terms of influence. Susan Sontag wrote that Juan Rulfo's single novel, 'Pedro Páramo,' is "one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature." Jorge Luis Borges called the novel a work of genuis. And yet Juan Rulfo, mantled as the father of magic realism, is much less well known than the many writers who have looked to him for inspiration. What made Rulfo so extraordinary, and how has his influence reverberated throughout world literature? On the 100th anniversary of Rulfo's birth in Jalisco, Mexico, this international panel of writers and artists, moderated by Jane Ciabattari, board member of the National Book Critics Circle, introduces Rulfo to new readers and celebrates his legacy.