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An edition of Pedro Páramo (1955)

Pedro Páramo

1st ed.

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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.

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Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
124

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Subjects

Ficción Fiction Readers Spanish language Translations into Irish Jalisco (México) Peasants Campesinos Fiction, family life Mexico, fiction Despotisme Romans, nouvelles Fantastique Histoires de fantômes Fiction, family life, general Mexican fiction Spanish imprints Spanish language, readers Fiction, general Campesinado Novela Novela mexicana Literatura mexicana Spanish language books Film and video adaptations

People

Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo (1918-)

Places

Mexico México

Times

Siglo XX

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Pedro Páramo
1994, Grove Press
in English - 1st ed.
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Pedro Páramo: a novel of Mexico
1990, Grove Weidenfeld, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English - 1st Grove Weidenfeld Evergreen ed.
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Pedro Páramo
1981, Fondo de Cultura Económica
Paperback in Spanish
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Pedro Páramo
May 8, 1979, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
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pedro paramo
1973, fundo de cultura economica
in English
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Pedro Páramo: a novel of Mexico
1969, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
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Pedro Páramo
1969, Grove Press
Paperback in English
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Pedro Páramo.
1959, Grove Press
in English

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863
Library of Congress
PQ7297.R89 P413 1994, PQ7297.R89P413 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 124 p. ;
Number of pages
124

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1077578M
Internet Archive
pedroparamo00rulf
ISBN 10
0802133908
LCCN
94000786
OCLC/WorldCat
29703611
LibraryThing
84285
Goodreads
38787

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1731119W

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First Sentence

"I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Paramo, lived there."

Work Description

Dentro de su brevedad -determinada por el rigor y la concentración expresiva-, Pedro Páramo sintetiza la mayor parte de los temas que han interesado -y afligido- siempre a los mexicanos: ese misterio nacional que el talento de Juan Rulfo ha sabido condensar por medio rural del sur de Jalisco -de Comala en particular, región inscrita ya en la mitología literia universal-; sus personajes muertos que "evasivos, reticentes, convierten en secreto el aire mismo, y se vuelven elocuentes como consecuencia de callarse."

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