Pedro P?ramo by Rulfo, Juan

ISBN: 0802133908

Author: Rulfo, Juan

Condition: new

A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a man?s strange quest for his heritage. Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro P?ramo, 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 P?ramo 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 P?ramo 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, from Jos? Donoso and Carlos Fuentes to Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia M?rquez.