Pedro Páramo
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Pedro Páramo is a classic novel by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, published in 1955. It tells the story of Juan Preciado, who visits the ghost town of Comala to meet his father, Pedro Páramo, and learns about his past and the fate of the town.
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.
Pedro Páramo tells the story of Comala, a small town in rural Mexico, through 68 short fragments that frequently jump between different plots, moments, and narrators. At least initially, the novel can be divided into two main stories.
Pedro Páramo es la primera novela del escritor mexicano Juan Rulfo, publicada por primera vez en 1955 por el Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1 El autor comenzó la obra a finales de los años 1940 y, tras recibir una beca del Centro Mexicano de Escritores, logró finalizarla y, más tarde, publicar adelantos de la misma de 1953 a 1954 en diversas revi...
2 days ago · ‘Pedro Páramo’ not only pays tribute to Mexico’s most important literary work, it is also a tribute to love, one as powerful as it is macabre, capable of bri...
Pedro Páramo is a classic Mexican novel that depicts the oppression and violence of rural life under the hacienda system. The novel follows a man's search for his father in a ghost town called Comala, where he encounters the voices and stories of the dead.
Juan Rulfo. Grove Press, 1994 - Fiction - 124 pages. A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a man's strange quest for his...
