Pedro Paramo
Author: Juan Rulfo
Translator: Chang Jeong
Publisher: Minumsa
199 pages | 225*132mm
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About This Book
A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a
man's strange quest for his heritage. 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, from Jose Donoso and Carlos
Fuentes to Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"Among contemporary writers in Mexico today Juan Rulfo is expected to
rank among the immortals."--Selden Rodman, The New York Times Book
Review
"A strange, brooding novel.... Great immediacy, power, and beauty."--The
Washington Post
"A powerful fascination...vivid and haunting; the style is a
triumph."--New York Herald Tribune
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