Para biografiar a Rulfo

Abstract

Rulfo cultivated the secret in important aspects of the personal. He omitted what he thought to be shameful, perhaps painful, inconceivable, to elaborately reveal it in code. He turned his life into a hieroglyph, more than any other life is. And it was fabulous. To approach the biography of a writer, represents a clear exercise of rewriting and also of transvestitism or transvestism, because the biographer becomes the narrated character and sometimes the character becomes like the narrator. At some point in the story, the biographer tunes in with the mythology of the other and a sort of coexistence occurs. It is when he warns that the biography is a mirror of the Self. Already converted into a character, you have to imagine the biographer, talk to him, get him out of the watertight place (documents, testimonies, archives) and get into his epic. To revive it through writing, to give it a new presence and place it in its time. Each subject to biography represents a challenge, especially when the subject is someone admirable for that fragment of life that is his work, perhaps the most luminous and exemplary of every great artist.