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Pedro Páramo

By Juan Rulfo & Douglas J. Weatherford &
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Publisher Description

Now an original Netflix film, directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole.” —Jorge Luis Borges

The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met—Pedro Páramo—but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Although initially published to a quiet reception, Pedro Páramo was soon recognized as a major novel that has served as a touchstone text for writers including Mario Vargas Llosa and José Donoso. Now published in a new translation from the definitive Spanish edition by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Weatherford, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez, this new edition of the novel cements its place as one of the seminal literary texts of the twentieth century.

1973 Reviews

3.5
Thinking Face“Surreal, kind of bleak. You have to pay close attention to the punctuation and the speakers because it's not spelled out for you who is saying what when, so I wouldn't call this a casual read, but it's so good.”

About Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo (1918-1986) was born in Sayula, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. His collection of short stories, The Burning Plain, and Pedro Páramo established him as a major literary figure in Latin America.

Douglas J. Weatherford

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