Pedro Páramo

When at the end of the 1960s the Spanish-American narrative achieved worldwide prestige, it looked back in search of its "classics", at which time the gigantic figure of Rulfo immediately stood out. In 1955, "Pedro Páramo" appeared, a novel gestated for a long time by a writer with a reputation for not being very prolific and who combined the Spanish-American narrative tradition itself with the techniques of the main renovators of the Western world: Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf... Rich and exciting as few, the account of the history of Comala and its ill-fated inhabitants drags readers from bewilderment to suggestion, immersing them in a succession of lyrical paintings in which the characters, landscapes, and language itself seem to come alive.