Daniel Mesa Gancedo
Contributor
Daniel Mesa Gancedo is a Lecturer in Latin American literature at the University of Zaragoza. His works include Similar Strangers; the Artificial Character and the Narrative Contrivance in Latin American literature (2002). He is also a contributor to 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2012), where an earlier version of this Britannica entry first appeared.
Primary Contributions (1)
The Burning Plain, a collection of short stories, including the title story, by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo (1917β1986), published in 1953. The rainless, infertile Llano Grande, or Great Plain, in the west-central Mexican state of Jalisco frames these tales about the Mexican Revolution and theβ¦
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Publications (1)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2012)
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have exited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs and presenting quotes from individual novels...
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