In his foreword, Alberto Vidal writes: “The papers of a great writer do in fact possess the character of documents.” In January 1945, Rulfo wrote: “I don’t know what is happening within me; but at every moment I feel there is something great and noble for which one can struggle and live. That great thing, for me, is you.… I was reading a fellow called Walt Whitman a while ago and found something that says: ‘Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud.’ And this made me recall that I was always taking my love with me everywhere, until I met you and gave it entirely to you.”
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