Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

A new translation of the legendary Mexican classic of magic realism which went on to inspire the works of Gabriel Garca Mrquez and Mario Vargas Llosa

Pedro Páramo is not only one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature but one of the most influential of the century's books -- Susan Sontag
Rulfo's moment in the English-speaking world has finally arrivedHis novel's conception is of a simplicity and profundity worthy of Greek tragedy, though another way of conveying its unique effect might be to say that it is Wuthering Heights located in Mexico and written by Kafka * Guardian *
This brilliant Mexican novel, written in 1955, describes a man's search for his unknown father with the haunting clarity and strange logic of a recurrent nightmare * Esquire *
A strange, brooding novel. . . . Great immediacy, power and beauty. * Washington Post *
A powerful fascination . . . vivid and haunting; the style is a triumph. * New York Herald Tribune *
With its dense interweaving of time, its routine interaction of the living and the dead, its surreal sense of the everyday, and with simultaneous-and harmonious-coexistence of apparently incompatible realities, this brief novel by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo strides through unexplored territory with a sure and determined step * New York Times Book Review *
No reader interested in the vitality of twentieth century Latin American fiction can afford to miss this work * Chicago Tribune *
The silences yawn in Rulfo's writing. Its rhythms seem to slow time, and reality's edges fray into a strange gulf ... Pedro Páramo is like hunting for a key in a building that is collapsing around you ... one of the more remarkable journeys in literature -- Chris Power
A founding text for literature in Central and Latin America, revered by Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, this short novel is full of miraculous features * Bookmunch *
This is the third time Pedro Páramo has been translated into English ... and I can only celebrate that someone has tried so hard to preserve the author's unique voice. An outstanding edition and a game-changing translation * London Magazine *
Juan Rulfo's novel defies logic. It is out to evade readers, to tease them for their attempts at understanding. Uncertainties, red herrings, and anxieties abound, all of which give Pedro Páramo its particular flavour * Full Stop *

Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) is the author of what is probably the most important novel in Mexican literature. Pedro Páramo was published in 1955 and went on to be translated into over forty languages, sell over a million copies in English alone and initiate an entire literary movement. Rulfo's other literary works are The Burning Plain and The Golden Cockerel. He also worked as an anthropologist and photographer. Douglas J. Weatherford, Professor of Hispanic Literature and Film at Brigham Young University, has published extensively on Juan Rulfo, with particular emphasis on the author's connection to film. In 2017, Weatherford released the first English-language translation of Rulfo's second novel, El gallo de oro (The Golden Cockerel and Other Writings, Deep Vellum)

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9781800812871
ISBN 10	1800812876
Titre	Pedro Paramo
Auteur	Juan Rulfo
Série	Serpent's Tail Classics
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Profile Books Ltd
Année de publication	2023-09-28
Nombre de pages	144
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Note	Non disponible