Juan Rulfo’s place in literature is known to all, and his role in photography is gaining ever wider recognition. But Rulfo also had a less public vocation, though no less intense for all that: Mexican history. Many of his photographs were born of his passion for the history of Mexican architecture, and he left a number of highly insightful pages dedicated to the subject.

This book casts a revealing light on the vision of Mexico of its greatest writer. It offers new ways of reading his literary and photographic work, which can now be seen as born of a profoundly reflective approach to the history of his country.