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Not going to lie, I struggled with this book because I read it in Spanish. It was full of mysticism and was a great insight into the hardships of an abandoned town in Mexico during the cristero period as Juan Preciado returns to find his father.
I‘ll eventually reread it in English because I feel I may have lost some nuances. Overall, I recommend.

Checked this out from my local library. Can‘t wait to get started.

No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

This all began he thought- when Pedro Páramo, coming from such low beginnings, climbed his way to the top. He grew like a weed. The worst part is I made it all possible: "I confess Father that last night I slept with Pedro Páramo." "I confess Father that I had a son by Pedro Páramo." "That I gave my daughter to Pedro Páramo." I kept waiting for him to show up and confess something himself, but he never did.

-They say his soul is wandering out and about. People have seen it knocking at some girl's window. Looked just like him. In leather chaps and all.

Bookgroup tomorrow...

(Will I finish in time?)

Pedro Paramo is the story of a man who, upon his mother's death and by her wish, goes to a town to find his father, Pedro Paramo. However, the town has no living inhabitants and is filled with the ghosts of the past. Pedro Paramo could be the antagonist, because he kept a mistress, mistreated and abandoned the man's mother, and exploited all the people of the town whose land he bought up. The man's mother told him to “make Pedro Paramo pay.“

#AlphabetGame
Title that begins with the letter P
Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of her formative years in Iran & later in Austria immediately comes to mind. Then there's Thompson's crime novel of a seemingly naive, yet truly sociopathic sheriff, Pop. 1280. Not to mention Lispector's haunting mystical work that I have not stopped thinking about since experiencing last year: Passion According to G.H. However, my choice is for👇

Imagine Edgar Allan Poe & Gabriel García Márquez collaborating on a novella & you will begin to approach the impact of Pedro Páramo. Juan Preciado visits Comala after his mother requests that he locates his biological father, the titular figure, on her deathbed. The reader quickly realizes that there is something strange with the town as the figure that he meets & accompanies to the town nonchalantly admits that he is the son of Pedro Páramo

I just read the first half of this novella and I have to say that so far it's flawless.

I haven't finished the book yet, but I made my #FoodAndLit #Mexico dinner to go with it tonight.
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This is my plan for #FoodAndLit #Mexico this month. @Butterfinger @Texreader

There are so many themes packed into this compact little novel I know I will reread it one day. Haunting and mysterious, this is a classic of Mexican literature that lovers of magical realism will not want to miss.

5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

#mexicanliterature #magicalrealism #booksintranslation

This magnificent book haunts without haunting description or spooky setting. At a rough guess, it‘s 75% dialogue, and yet it still evokes a ghostly atmosphere. (Okay, so there are actual ghosts. Still.) Most impressive is how it relays multiple complete narratives and interwoven complex characters in under 125 pages. I envy this book.

And the rest of the splurge has some #1001books

The Arion Press edition is amazing (and is the OOP University of Texas Press edition). Check out the complete review on the blog.

Shooting that sweet book porn for my upcoming review on The Whole Book Experience...👨��🎨📷

Two wonderful editions: from the Arion Press and the University of Texas Press. Review up soon on The Whole Book Experience.

Very excited for a re-read of this magical novel in the Arion Press edition for my blog, The Whole Book Experience!

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read this at least 3 times in a row to try to understand what was happening. extremely fascinating.

Waiting for sunrise and for wholesale accounts to pick up their breakfast pastries so I can go home and sleep, but at least I brought a book today. Although I suppose I could be cleaning...😂

You can DEFINITELY tell this is a precursor to magical realism. Wow.

Welp, here we go! #readingtoteach

My Sunday afternoon read is a novella that‘s considered a masterpiece in the style of magical realism. It was influential to many Latin American writers, including Gabriel García Márquez. â�¤ï¸�

I‘m just glad I didn‘t skip the forward by Susan Sontag or I wouldn‘t know what‘s going on! So far I‘d call it surreal...and haunting! ? #mexicanauthors

Read this for IB in high school. References to Dante‘s inferno.

One of my favourite books. Magical realism full of ghosts and beauty. #MexicanAuthors

Pedro Páramo is one of the most well known pieces of literature in Spanish. I am finally getting to know this story in the 100th anniversary of Juan Rulfo's birth.

One of my most beloved novels #notinenglish. In my opinion, the best Mexican writer and one of the best in the world. Juan Rulfo only wrote two books: this novel and a collection of short stories called El Llano en Llamas (The Burning Plain). Both filled with beautifully haunting and evanescent worlds written with aesthetic perfection.
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I can definitely see why this is considered classic magical realism. I'll admit I was a tad confused at times, but I loved the descriptions of Mexico and the characters so much, I didn't care. Simply weird and wonderful.

Supposedly the book that started the magical realism trend and supposedly a terrifying read but after 33 pages of a 124 page book I'm not scared!

Found this at Unwritten Bookshop Cafe too. It's like a Mexican book fiesta on the shelves!

Found this at Unwritten Bookshop Cafe too. It's like a Mexican book fiesta on the shelves!

A classic. Des sprinted by it, intrigued ... Still in my mind after so many years