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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo

Novel.

A classic among the classics. This is one of the best of Mexican literature (I don’t know if fortunately or unfortunately, but I personally appreciate it anyway).

Some foreigners (especially Americans and Europeans) still believe that most of Mexico is still believing and living like in the marvelous scenes and environments that this novel displays.

The story begins with a man who goes to a town looking for Pedro Páramo, his father. As the argument develops we notice that Pedro Páramo and the town are something out of the ordinary.

¡I HATE COSTUMBRISMO (literature of local customs and manners)! However, Rulfo doesn’t fit in it. He overpasses this kind of writing.

Alan

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