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Pedro Paramo

by Juan Rulfo · 1955

Classics · ranked #58 in category

Juan Preciado travels to the Mexican village of Comala to find his father Pedro Páramo, only to discover that Comala is inhabited entirely by the dead. Rulfo's short, radical novel — only 124 pages — dissolves the boundary between the living and the dead, between past and present, and between the personal and the mythological. García Márquez said it was the novel that taught him how to write.

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The verdict

Category
Classics
First published
1955 · 1950s
Author
Juan Rulfo
Standing
Essential Read

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