Juan Rulfo Literary Contribution And His Works

Juan Rulfo literary contribution and his works

Introduction.

Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer was born in the city of Acapulco on May 16 in 1916 and died in Mexico City in 1986. Rulfo was recognized as one of the great masters of the Spanish -American narrative of the twentieth century. His family was composed of his parents whose fortunes were ruined mostly by the Mexican revolution. 

This event was what marked and referred to Rulfo being interested in literature and could express in it the ideas and thoughts of him about the context in which he was immersed. In addition, his father had died in a violent way, and then faced the death of his mother, which was derived in solitude due to the fact of not having relatives nearby. Like every literary work Rulfo is in a context. A framework composed of bibliographic, geographical, historical, and cultural aspects, which can explain the relationship between the author and the work.

Developing.

Rulfo in his writings used a more perfected form of the internalization mechanism of his country’s reality, Mexico in a world where the mysterious and real interspersed to reflect the situation lived by the inhabitants of that place. For this reason, he used the genre of the wonderful real that comes from the Spanish baroque neo. This was created in America, since according to Alejo Carpentier, the American reality is in a wonderful, admirable and novelty.

In his story, tell them not to kill me!, A profile of the rural life of Mexican people is reflected, through revenge, death and other aspects that were shown during the revolution and have had subsequent repercussions.

Violence, hatred, abandonment of the field and consistent poverty become fundamental elements of its narrative, although, without a doubt, the fundamental axis of Juan Rulfo’s literature is nothing more than disappointment, generated in the Mexican’s mind For the end of a revolution that did not have the expected consequences at the beginning. This conflict resulted in a catastrophe, with millions of dead, which increased violence, changed the power and possession of the land from one hands to another, but almost nothing improved the way of life of the Mexican peasant.

Being witness to existing inequalities in the post -revolutionary world, along with his own memories of his childhood, was what promoted Rulfo to write and develop his photographic career, documenting landscapes and corners of Mexico. Both his photos and writings carry the brand of testimony and, although he himself did not consider himself as a person capable of reflecting reality, it is notable how his works reflect it: desolate, sad, shadow, dark atmospheres are observed that show that Rulfo is full of sequelae and brands caused by his experiences lived.

In his novel "Pedro Páramo" a people who are desolate, lonely in which the reader will know the life and work of Pedro Páramo is described, even verse immersed in the events that led to comment to their total destruction. Dead people are used speaking, who in a sense express words that were to be said. As can also be interpreted as Rulfo revive the unmporal ghosts that have accompanied him throughout his history. 

Rulfo used various techniques to write this novel. Among them the flash-back, the count, interior monologues, the evocation that refers to seeing the psyche and the spirits or dead that speak, and the pre-active narration, that is to say the narratives that begins with the result of the events that began In an action.

In his story entitled Luvina, we find an omniscient narrator who describes a hill called Luvina. A great description of the place that shows that loneliness and desolation of the inhabitants of the town is made, in ‘where even the dogs have died’ and where the integers without interest, without knowing the time, nobody leads the account of the hours or No one worries how the years go by. The days begin and end. Then comes the night. 

Only the day and night until the day of death, which for them is a hope: “It is the place where sadness nests. Where the smile is not known, as if all the people had made their face. And you, if you want, you can see that sadness when you want. "The vegetation did not even grow or the food abounded:" Those sad seedlings that can barely live a little smeared on earth ". The narrator explains that his experience in Luvina left him ruined and without forces, in that town the only hope was to die.

In "Macario", the protagonist reflects his precarious condition, throughout the whole Macario tale he remarks his situation, which ate frogs and toads, society said he was crazy, they called him to eat and threw stones, he took the milk that Felipa gave him because they lived in a very delicate and precarious situation, so Macario preferred to stay in that house rather than starving, because his parents were also in purgatory. 

They have a very close relationship, since she appreciates it very. The Church appears as a powerful entity that totally governs the life of its faithful, taking them to extreme fanaticism

Through this story we try to show that he is not loved in society, injustice and poverty, that famine surpasses him to the point of eating whatever it is in order not to starve. In all his stories, Rulfo retracts disappointment, the misery in which Mexico was after the Mexican revolution, the anguish of man reflected in his life on earth, that anguish that crosses time and is reflected in the image of a converted people In a hell, which has no future. The hope of the characters becomes hopeless, since all they expect is that the time of their death comes.

conclusion.

 It can be evidenced that many times knowing the author’s context, helps to understand his works. It is necessary to know about his life, the situations they had to face, the time he lived, how his family was, among other things. As much as the writings do not want. It is possible to consider literature as a great tool to convey what we may feel and cannot express, or with which we do not agree, whether both with society and our environment.