Pedro Páramo

Family & Heritage 1955

Summary

Juan Preciado travels to the Mexican village of Comala to find his father Pedro Páramo, only to discover it populated entirely by the dead. This 112-page novel, once rejected by two publishers, became one of the most influential in Latin American literature.

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Mexico

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About the author

Juan Rulfo

Mexican novelist and photographer (1917–1986) whose small but extraordinarily influential body of work — one novel and one short story collection — is considered among the most important in 20th-century Latin American literature.

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Published: 1955
Author: Juan Rulfo