num_pages: 124
description: A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.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 Páramo - 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 García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.
language: English
title: Pedro Páramo
titlecomplete: Pedro Páramo
characters: Juan Preciado
genres: Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 64717
places: Comala, Mexico
publisher: Grove Press