Pedro Paramo

by Juan Rulfo, Susan Sontag, Margaret Sayers Peden

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As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Paramo - lover, overlord, murderer. Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. To read "Pedro Paramo" today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico nearly fifty years ago.

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Published
24/02/2000

Publisher
Serpent's Tail

ISBN
9781852427269

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No less a writer than Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called this book the most influential reading of his early writing years, and as Susan Sontag sets out in her foreword, this is no surprise: 'Pedro Paramo is a classic in the truest sense... It is a book that has profoundly influenced the making of literature and continues to resonate in other books.' Written in 1955, it introduced the Spanish-speaking world to that of magic realism, through a narrative of constantly-shifting points of view, time frames and attitude. In it a Mexican mother's dying words to her son that he seek out Pedro Paramo ('Peter Wasteland') the father he never knew, take on an existential multiplicity sending him back in time to when the wasteland was alive. A haunting novel of voices, sadness and regret - 'a structure made of silences, of hanging threads, of cut scenes, where everything occurs in a simultaneous time which is a no-time' according to the author - Pedro Paramo makes its UK print debut here, in a translation which does the original great belated justice. (Kirkus UK)