Pedro Páramo
By: Juan Rulfo ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; with a foreword by Susan Sontag.
Contributors: Peden, Margaret Sayers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Mexico -- Fiction
Description: 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.