El Club Latino: "Pedro Páramo"

Acerca del libro:

"Obra maestra del surrealismo que influyó en una generación de escritores latinoamericanos, "Pedro Páramo" es el relato onírico de la búsqueda que emprende un hombre para encontrar a su padre perdido. "Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo. Mi madre me lo dijo. Y yo le prometí que vendría a verlo en cuanto ella muriera". Obra maestra del universo literario en español, esta portentosa novela mexicana narra la historia de Pedro Páramo, un caudillo local de quien dependen la vida y la muerte de un pueblo, Comala, y del hijo que va a buscarlo porque así se lo prometió a su madre moribunda. El narrador, Juan Preciado, llega a un pueblo deshabitado pero lleno de susurros, y a través de estos conoce la destrucción que trajo la convulsa pasión de Pedro Páramo hacia Susana San Juan. Publicada en 1955 y aclamada por el público y la crítica," Pedro Páramo" representa un cambio radical con la novela realista de la época. "No vayas a pedirle nada. Exígele lo nuestro. Lo que estuvo obligado a darme y nunca me dio... El olvido en que nos tuvo, mi hijo, cóbraselo caro."

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Join the Spanish Book Club. This month's book is "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo.

About the book:

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, "Pedro P̀ramo" is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. "I came to Comala because I was told my father lived here—a man named Pedro Páramo. My mother told me so. And I promised her I would come to see him as soon as she died." A masterpiece of Spanish-language literature, this extraordinary Mexican novel tells the story of Pedro Páramo—a local strongman who holds the life and death of the town of Comala in his hands—and of the son who goes in search of him, fulfilling a promise made to his dying mother. The narrator, Juan Preciado, arrives in a town that is uninhabited yet filled with whispers; through them, he learns of the destruction wrought by Pedro Páramo’s turbulent passion for Susana San Juan. Published in 1955 and acclaimed by both the public and critics, "Pedro Páramo" represents a radical departure from the realist novels of its time. "Don't ask him for anything. Demand what is ours. What he was obliged to give me but never did... Make him pay dearly for the way he abandoned us, my son."