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Publication date. 1955. Pedro Páramo is a novel by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, first published in 1955. The novel tells the story of Juan Preciado, a man who promises his mother on her deathbed to meet Preciado's father for the first time in the town of Comala only to come across a literal ghost town, that is, populated by spectral characters.
Nov 29, 2023 · “Pedro Páramo,” first published in Mexico in 1955, often produces a feverish response. Jorge Luis Borges said it was one of the greatest works of literature ever written. Susan Sontag called...
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...
January 11, 2023. Juan Rulfo was one of those who stood at the beginning of magic realism. Pedro Páramo is a descent into the hell of human memory, a plunge into an abyss of the dire past – the hero travels to find his father but he finds himself astray in the land of the dead.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Two poles of Rulfo’s art, regionalism and idealism, made Pedro Páramo a precursor of magical realist fiction and the boom novels in the 1960s. The boom period represented an intense output by Latin American authors of world-acclaimed fiction.
