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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, one of the most innovative and celebrated Mexican novels ever written. It follows the son of the titular character as he travels to the town of Comala in search of his father, who was formerly the most important landowner in the area. On the way, he learns about his father’s shocking brutality and mistreatment of Comala’s poor inhabitants, and discovers an astonishing secret about the town. Along with the short story collection
The Burning Plain,
Pedro Páramo cemented Rulfo’s reputation as one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. He also gained recognition for his photography, which is now a subject of critical study in its own right.
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JUAN RULFO
MEXICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER
Born in Jalisco (Mexico) in 1917.Died in Mexico City in 1986.Literary awards:Xavier Villaurrutia Award, 1957 (for Pedro Páramo)National Prize for Linguistics and Literature (Mexico), 1970Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 1983Notable honours:Member of the Mexican Academy of Letters (appointed in 1976)Notable works:The Burning Plain (1953), short story collectionPedro Páramo (1955), novelThe Golden Cockerel (1980), novellaJuan Rulfo was a Mexican writer, photographer and screenwriter. Both his parents died when he was very young, and he spent most of his childhood in an orphanage. He moved to Mexico City in 1933 to attend university, and although he was unable to enrol due to a bureaucratic issue, he was allowed to sit in on art history classes. This gave him an impressive knowledge of the history, anthropology and geography of Mexico, and these topics greatly influenced his work.
In 1934, he began publishing pieces of short fiction in the literary review América, and later that decade he started working for the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior. As part of his work, he travelled around the entire country and witnessed the poverty and hardship faced by citizens in its remotest regions first-hand. This subsequently provided inspiration for his novels and short stories, which all have a marked social dimension. Later on, Rulfo worked for the National Institute for Indigenous People.
As a writer, Rulfo valued quality over quantity: his literary output amounts to just one novel, one novella and 17 short stories, but this was enough to cement his reputation of one of the greatest writers in Mexico and in Latin America as a whole.
Although it was his writing that made him famous, his photographs attracted increasing critical attention in his later years and are now an important subject of study in their own right. He was active as a writer and a photographer during the same period of time, but he always saw the two mediums as entirely independent from one another and aimed to use his photography to create a portrait of contemporary Mexican life.
Did you know?
When he was asked why he had stopped writing, Rulfo’s half-joking, half-serious response was that his uncle Celerino, who used to tell him all his stories, had died.
PEDRO PÁRAMO
A BLEND OF REALISM AND FANTASY
Genre: novelReference edition: Rulfo, J. (2014) Pedro Páramo. Trans. Sayers Peden, M. London: Serpent’s Tail.1st edition: 1955Themes: death, travel, Mexican Revolution, womenPedro Páramo is a highly original novel which skilfully blends realism and fantasy. It tells the story of Juan Preciado, who travels to the town of Comala in search of his father Pedro Páramo only to find that all the town’s inhabitants are ghosts. The novel reconstructs the town’s idyllic past, when it was a prosperous place and everyone was still alive, and tells the story of its decline.
