Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo (1955)

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Begged by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Páramo, from whom they fled years ago, Juan Preciado leaves for Comala. Comala is a town full of whispers and shadows, a place seemingly populated only by memories and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its arid, dilapidated streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past.
First published to great critical and public acclaim in 1955, Pedro Páramo represented a clear break with earlier, largely "realist" novels from Latin America. Rulfo's fascinating blend of vivid sensory imagery, violent passions, and inexplicable sorcery—a style that has come to be known as "magical realism"—has exerted a profound influence on later Latin American writers.
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Fiction, Fiction, Readers, Spanish language, Translations into Irish, Jalisco (Mexico), Peasants, Peasants, Fiction, family life, Mexico, fiction, Despotism, Romans, nouvelles, Fantastique, Histoires de fantômes, Fiction, family life, general, Mexican fiction, Spanish prints, Spanish language, Readers, Fiction, general, Peasantry, Novel, Mexican novel, Mexican literature, Books in the Spanish language, Cinema and video adaptationsPeople
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"I came to Comala because they had told me that my father, a man named Pedro Páramo, lived there."
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Within its brevity - determined by rigor and expressive concentration -, Pedro Páramo synthesizes most of the themes that have always interested - and afflicted - Mexicans: that national mystery that the talent of Juan Rulfo has been able to condense through the rural environment of southern Jalisco - Comala in particular, a region already inscribed in universal literary mythology -; his dead characters who "evasive, reticent, become secret air itself, and become eloquent as a consequence of being silent."