Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Winner, Fred Whitehead Award for the Best Design of a Trade Book from Texas Institute of Letters>
Western Books Exhibition Selection, Rounce & Coffin Club, 2003

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel>Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed--Susana San Juan. Recognizing that Rulfo was describing a world I already knew and feeling a very personal response, particularly to Susana San Juan and her dilemma, Josephine Sacabo used Rulfo's novel as the starting point for a series of evocative photographs she calls The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan: Homage to Juan Rulfo.

This volume brings together Rulfo's novel and Sacabo's photographs to offer a dual artistic vision of the same unforgettable story. Margaret Sayers Peden's superb translation renders the novel as poetic and mysterious in English as it is in Spanish. Josephine Sacabo's photographs tell, in her words, the story of a woman forced to take refuge in madness as a means of protecting her inner world from the ravages of the forces around her: a cruel and tyrannical patriarchy, a church that offers no redemption, the senseless violence of revolution, death itself.

Winner, Fred Whitehead Award for the Best Design of a Trade Book from Texas Institute of Letters>
Western Books Exhibition Selection, Rounce & Coffin Club, 2003

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel>Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed--Susana San Juan. Recognizing that Rulfo was describing a world I already knew and feeling a very personal response, particularly to Susana San Juan and her dilemma, Josephine Sacabo used Rulfo's novel as the starting point for a series of evocative photographs she calls The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan: Homage to Juan Rulfo.

This volume brings together Rulfo's novel and Sacabo's photographs to offer a dual artistic vision of the same unforgettable story. Margaret Sayers Peden's superb translation renders the novel as poetic and mysterious in English as it is in Spanish. Josephine Sacabo's photographs tell, in her words, the story of a woman forced to take refuge in madness as a means of protecting her inner world from the ravages of the forces around her: a cruel and tyrannical patriarchy, a church that offers no redemption, the senseless violence of revolution, death itself.

Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) was one of Mexico's premier authors of the twentieth century and an important precursor of magical realism in Latin American writing. Rulfo received Mexico s National Prize for Literature (Premio Nacional de Literatura) in 1970, was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) in 1980, and received the Cervantes Prize (Premio Cervantes), the highest literary award in Spanish, in 1985. Rulfo suffered from lung cancer in his final months and died on January 7, 1986 at his home in Mexico City.
Douglas J. Weatherford graduated from BYU in 1988 (B.A. Spanish), served in the Persian Gulf War as a linguist, & after returning received his PhD in Latin American Literature at Penn State University. He has been a professor at BYU since 1995 & currently serves as Head of the Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures Section.

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ISBN 13	9780394174464
ISBN 10	0394174461
Title	Pedro Paramo
Author	Juan Rulfo
Series	Black Cat Books
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1959-12-01
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