Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo

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"Rulfo Trilogy": "The Burning Fields", "Pedro Páramo", "Golden Cockerel"

★ The founder of the magical realism novel genre, known as the "pioneer of the new Latin American novel", leading the trend of the Latin American "literary explosion"

★ Without Rulfo, there might not be "One Hundred Years of Solitude"——

The prototype of the classic opening of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was inspired by "Pedro Páramo"

In Rulfo's work, García Márquez "found the path he needed to find to continue writing books."

★ He left behind only a very limited number of works in his lifetime, but he is regarded as a literary idol by many writers——

García Márquez, Oe Kenzaburo, Le Clézio…they all loved Rulfo’s description of the wilderness;

Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Su Tong...they were all deeply influenced by Rulfo

★ Translated directly from Spanish by renowned translators/scholars Zhao Zhenjiang, Tu Mengchao, Zhang Weijie, and Jin Can, with a preface and introduction, and including valuable content such as García Márquez's long preface, the author's autobiography, and a dedication to the Rulfo Foundation

★ The cover of the series exclusively uses Rulfo's personal photography, showing the vast and charming land of Mexico through the eyes of the writer, suitable for both reading and reading

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Pedro Páramo

◎ “Life is short, sleep is endless.”

◎ The pioneering work of magical realism, García Márquez knew it by heart

◎ Rulfo's most well-known masterpiece, a contemporary Mexican myth that traces its roots in the wilderness and looks back on the rise and fall of a century

【Content Introduction】

To fulfill my mother's last wish, I traveled to the small town of Comala, searching for my father, Pedro Páramo, whom I had never met. A kind donkey driver directed me to stay at the home of Mrs. Adui Hayes—she seemed to have been expecting me all morning. The village was desolate and bleak, yet I could often hear the scraping of footsteps and the dense buzzing of a swarm of bees. Life seemed to whisper softly, swaying on the wind...

Through conversations with them, the past of Comala gradually emerged: Pedro Páramo, whose family fell into poverty at a young age, rose to power through plunder, committing a multitude of evils. However, his only acknowledged son fell to his death from a horse, and his beloved wife, whom he had married for half his life, died of madness. He cursed the entire village, and his own fate was inevitable...

【Celebrity Reviews】

I could recite the whole book, and even recite it backwards without making any major mistakes. I could also tell me which page each story was on in the book I was reading, and there was no character with which I was unfamiliar.

—Gabriel García Márquez

"Pedro Páramo" is one of the best novels in Spanish literature and even in the world literature.

—Jorge Luis Borges

Juan Rulfo reflects on the last men and women of our land.

—Carlos Fuentes

Rulfo's writing reveals "a landscape that is not what we see with our eyes, but what lies behind our sight. A landscape that never speaks of itself but of something else, even something more distant. It is a metaphysical, a religious, a thought about man and the universe. (…) Rulfo is the only Mexican novelist who has given us an image of the Mexican landscape rather than a description of it."

—Octavio Paz

Rulfo's novel is not only a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, but also one of the most influential books of the 20th century.

—Susan Sontag

I think the best work is a Mexican novel called "Pedro Páramo." It's like the dead and the living breathe the same air and live together. I think it's a fantastic novel! This author is rightfully at the center of Latin American literature.

——Kensaburo Oe

"Pedro Páramo" is still considered by many writers and critics to be the pinnacle of 20th century Latin American novels, and only a few novels such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" can compete with it.

——Qiu Huadong

It was Juan Rulfo who truly opened the entrance to time for the first time. It was that mysterious, irrational, multi-time concept that transcends life and death and breaks logic that made him obsessed and pushed the writing of "regionalism" to a dreamlike and divine extreme.

——Jidi Maga

In writing Pedro Páramo and The Burning Fields, Juan Rulfo shows that writing never ends.

——Yu Hua

"Pedro Páramo" is a literary peak that can only be looked up to and climbed silently.

——Su Tong

A novel that has had a significant influence on me is Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo. In this novel, Juan Rulfo completely breaks down the distinction between yin and yang, creating a seamless transition between time and space, far surpassing even our classics like Journey to the West and Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

——Yan Lianke

Rulfo's novels are like sad songs that wander through the Mexican countryside, with no beginning or end and confusing lyrics.

——Zhang Jiawei

2021-01-01

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