Juan Rulfo. The Golden Cockerel and Other Writings. Translated by Douglas J. Weatherford

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Notes

^1. Jorge Luis Borges, “Pedro Páramo: elogios y diatribas,” Nexos, http://cultura.nexos.com.mx/?p=7957 (accessed August 10, 2017). (Unless otherwise noted, translations of texts in Spanish are my own.)

^2. Gabriel García Márquez, “Pedro Páramo: elogios y diatribas,” Nexos, http://cultura.nexos.com.mx/?p=7957 (accessed August 10, 2017).

^3. Weatherford refers to this translation in his Introduction and Translator’s Note.

^4. A revised edition was published posthumously in 2010.

^5. Weatherford, “Synopsis of The Golden Cockerel,” 109 n18.

^6. Weatherford, “Introduction,” 18.

^7. Rulfo, “Synopsis of The Golden Cockerel,” 109.

^8. Rulfo, “De la nada a la nada,” La Jornada, http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/10/30/cultura/a04n1cul (accessed August 10, 2017).

^9. Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “cockerel,” http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/view/Entry/35396?redirectedFrom=cockerel (accessed August 10, 2017).

^10. Weatherford, “Translator’s Note,” 33.

^11. Rulfo, El gallo de oro, 28.

^12. Weatherford, The Golden Cockerel, 45.

^13. Weatherford, “Translator’s Note,” 27.

^14. Ibid., 29.

^15. Ibid., 29–30.

^16. Ibid., 35.

^17. Rulfo, El gallo de oro, 21.

^18. Rulfo, The Golden Cockerel, 39.

^19. Ibid., 21.

^20. Rulfo, The Golden Cockerel, 39.

^21. Eco, Experiences in Translation, x.

^22. Weatherford, “Introduction,” 4.

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George B. Henson

George B. Henson, Ph.D. is a lecturer of Spanish at the University of Oklahoma, where he is a contributing editor for World Literature Today and translation editor for its sister publication Latin American Literature Today. He is the translator of Cervantes laureate Sergio Pitol’s Trilogy of Memory.