![]() The history of the Porfiriate and the oppression wreaked by local powerbrokers and of the long civil war that Mexico calls a revolution takes its place as the first ghost among ghosts in the town of Comala and the pages of the novel. The chronology flips back and forth, narrators change, and we find the tragedy that haunts the lives of rich and poor in Mexico. ![]() he is told that his long death father is "living bile", a verdict we come to share. Juan finds a town of ghosts and, eventually, joins them. Juan Preciado comes to Comala, to complete a promise made to his mother on her death bed to find his father, Pedro Paramo. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in a foreword, credits the novel with liberating his writing talents and showing him how he could complete his great opus of novels. ![]() ![]() Pedro Paramo is an astonishing novel by Mexican writer, Juan Rulfo. ![]()
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