National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Sun, Stone, and Shadows

Resource provides a description, questions, essay topics, lesson plans, biographies, and notes guide a reading of Sun, Stone, and , Shadows, a compilation of short stories by twentieth-century Mexican authors Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Rosario Castellanos, and Carlos Fuentes. Includes a two-part radio show, with transcripts, the first on Paz's "My Life with the Wave" [23 mins, 45 secs] and the second on Fuentes's "Chac-Mool" [29 mins, 13 secs]. Each includes reading of the text and brief discussion of context and themes.