Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
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Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows - a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Paramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past.
First published to both critical and popular acclaim in 1955, Pedro Paramo represented a distinct break with earlier, largely "realist" novels from Latin America. Rulfo's entrancing mixture of vivid sensory images, violent passions, and inexplicable sorcery - a style that has come to be known as "magical realism" - has exerted a profound influence on subsequent Latin American writers.
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Ficción, Fiction, Readers, Spanish language, Translations into Irish, Jalisco (México), Peasants, Campesinos, Fiction, family life, Mexico, fiction, Despotisme, Romans, nouvelles, Fantastique, Histoires de fantômes, Fiction, family life, general, Mexican fiction, Spanish imprints, Spanish language, readers, Fiction, general, Campesinado, Novela, Novela mexicana, Literatura mexicanaPeople
Juan Rulfo, Juan Rulfo (1918-)Showing 6 featured editions. View all 35 editions?
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Pedro Páramo: a novel of Mexico
1990, Grove Weidenfeld, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Pedro Páramo: a novel of Mexico
1969, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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"I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Paramo, lived there."
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Dentro de su brevedad - determinada por el rigor y la concentración expresiva - Pedro Páramo sintetiza la mayor parte de los temas que han interesado - y afligido - siempre a los mexicanos: ese misterio nacional que el talento de Juan Rulfo ha sabido condensar por medio rural del sur de Jalisco - de Comala en particular, región inscrita ya en la mitología literia universal -; sus personajes muertos que "evasivos, reticentes, convierten en secreto el aire mismo, y se vuelven elocuentes como consucuencia de callarse."
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