Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo · first published 1955
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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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…set in the 1930s. Reminded me in many ways of Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows, a novel in the similar genre (but with a younger protagonist) that's known much less than it deserves. Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo. If you read and liked Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitude, this one is shorter, darker, involves many more dead people, and you may want to give it a try. Alfred Hayes, In Love. A story of…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗…guides,for example one by origin of the work[6] To finish I will give 7 books, very well known, but they wont always appear in, say a reddit top 100 books or whatever: 1. The tartar steppe. Dino Buzzati 2. Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo. 3. Life and fate.Vasily Grossman 4.Memoirs of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar 5. The book of disquiet. Fernando Pessoa 6. The House of the Sleeping Beauties. Yasunari Kawabata. 7. Midaq…
on “Good Books for a Lousy Year” ↗The biggest influence on Marquez, according to Marquez himself, was Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo (1955), which is a masterpiece. Borges considered it one of his favourite books, but it's still almost forgotten in the English-speaking world. Highly recommended to anyone who likes magical realism.
on “The Inventor of Magical Realism” ↗