Burning Ground (Paperback)

Debut book by award-winning Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. A regionalist work, with 17 short stories that reflect, in part, the writer's origins, born in Jalisco, a poor, semiarid region of Mexico. Using colloquial and extremely concise language, Rulfo presents a scenario of injustice, violence, death, and lack of prospects, which in some cases are consequences of the Mexican Revolution (1910) or the Cristero War (1927-1929). In 1945, Juan Rulfo had his first short stories published in magazines, but it was with Pedro Páramo that he achieved prestige and became considered one of the most celebrated Spanish-language writers. In *Chão em Chamas*, Juan Rulfo does not use fantastic realism, as in his famous work *Pedro Páramo*; on the contrary, he employs a pure and intense realism, often bordering on naturalism. The original edition of *Chão em Chamas* dates from 1953, with fifteen short stories; In 1970, the same book gained two more stories, and this version is now available in paperback.