PEDRO PARAMO

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo stands at the forefront of Latin American works employing the techniques of modernism and Magical Realism. The novel begins in a straightforward fashion with a traveller, Juan Preciado, returning to the village of his mother's birth, Comala. At a fateful crossroads meeting, he encounters his half brother, Abundio Martínez, who serves as his guide as he descends into the village (Rulfo, 1955).

As Juan Preciado arrives in Comala, he finds a town totally at odds with his mother's recollections. Instead of the verdant, fertile town of her youth, ...