"The Burning Field"
On the hard, cold soil, the dust on the shoulders of the poor is as small as grass.
Because of poverty, a cow can decide the fate of a young girl. They were allotted to the ground, but there was not even a blade of grass to protect them from the wind. The raindrops that accidentally fell were swallowed up by the thirsty earth and disappeared in an instant. He committed a crime by begging for grass for the poor animals and hid for most of his life, but they still refused to let him go...
On the plain, the wind is dark black and the time is long. No one remembers the time, only the silence contained in the loneliness of all things.
Death is a hope for all.
Reader comments
I love this book so much! The author Juan Rulfo is amazing! The stories he wrote were so interesting and made me feel like I was on that burning field. I especially like the stories of the poor people in the book. Although their lives are difficult, they are all strong. And the cow that decides the fate of the girl is so heartbreaking. I think the words in this book are very powerful and allow me to see a different world. I recommend you to read it, you will definitely have a very different feeling!
Reading "The Burning Field" is like standing on a land cracked by the scorching sun, with ashes under your feet and wind in the distance. Juan Rulfo used seventeen short stories to draw a map of the world after the Mexican Revolution - no heroes, no victory, only forgotten people, rotting silently in violence, poverty and fate.
What Rulfo writes is not a story, but a destiny. He does not accuse or sensationalize, but uses the calmest writing to analyze how poverty is inherited from generation to generation, how hatred lasts longer than memory, and how hope is proven to be a lie time and time again. The most suffocating thing is that he allows those who have been crushed to speak - children, madmen, dying people, escapees - using their broken, calm, and even somewhat dull voices to express their deepest despair.
After reading it, I realized that this burning wilderness is not in Mexico, but in every forgotten corner of the world. Under the ashes, there is no ashes
I love this book so much! The author Juan Rulfo is amazing! The stories he wrote were so interesting and made me feel like I was on that burning field. I especially like the stories of the poor people in the book. Although their lives are difficult, they are all strong. And the cow that decides the fate of the girl is so heartbreaking. I think the words in this book are very powerful and allow me to see a different world. I recommend you to read it, you will definitely have a very different feeling!
Reading "The Burning Field" is like standing on a land cracked by the scorching sun, with ashes under your feet and wind in the distance. Juan Rulfo used seventeen short stories to draw a map of the world after the Mexican Revolution - no heroes, no victory, only forgotten people, rotting silently in violence, poverty and fate. What Rulfo writes is not a story, but a destiny. He does not accuse or sensationalize, but uses the calmest writing to analyze how poverty is inherited from generation to generation, how hatred lasts longer than memory, and how hope is proven to be a lie time and time again. The most suffocating thing is that he allows those who have been crushed to speak - children, madmen, dying people, escapees - using their broken, calm, and even somewhat dull voices to express their deepest despair. After reading it, I realized that this burning wilderness is not in Mexico, but in every forgotten corner of the world. Under the ashes, there is no ashes
Philosophical and worth appreciating.