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This weeks reading, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo is a fragmented story that begins with a young man seeking out his estranged father in a town called Comala to fulfil his mother’s dying request. As the novel progresses the young man dies and the tale focusses on the father, Pedro Páramo, and how he caused the … read full post >>

I’m personally a big fan of slave-owning white people being in extreme pain and suffering immensely, so I really enjoyed the beginning of this novel as well as a lot of the moments that depicted the plantations being take over by the workers (minus the part about the women and children). I didn’t expect this […] read full post >>

Ghosts were everywhere in the town of this tale. When thinking of a ghost, my brain imagines a cartoon person who’s transparent, visibly supernatural, and floats through walls - haunting different rooms. There are some similarities here to this concept... read full post >>

Ghosts were everywhere in the town of this tale. When thinking of a ghost, my brain imagines a cartoon person who’s transparent, visibly supernatural, and floats through walls - haunting different rooms. There are some similarities here to this concept... read full post >>

Pedro Paramo has been my favourite read out of the entire course so far, unsurprisingly, as it did come with the recommendation that it may be “the best Mexican novel ever written?” by Jon himself.  This book has been filled with narration spanning from multiple different perspectives, each with a unique link to the village … Continue reading → read full post >>

 I liked reading this book. And I can completely see why some consider it the precursor to magical realism. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo is largely about the balance between hope and misery, and the way that people  have such strong hopes t... read full post >>

 I liked reading this book. And I can completely see why some consider it the precursor to magical realism. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo is largely about the balance between hope and misery, and the way that people  have such strong hopes t... read full post >>

This week’s reading was Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, a relatively short novel about a man visiting his parents’ hometown in search for his father, the eponymous Pedro Páramo. The setting is the town of Comala in early-20th century Mexico (some of the flashbacks creep into the Mexican Revolution), but the narrator Juan Preciado is implied to […] read full post >>

“Pedro Páramo” is a novel written by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo a novel that falls under and the main genre is magical realism, as Professor Jon explained to us. The novel is set in the Mexican city of Comala, which I actually visited once a few years ago. Therefore, this detail really caught my […] read full post >>

I broke the rules a bit this week and ended up reading both Pedro Páramo and The Kingdom of This World since they were both on my reading list anyways. I enjoyed both, but I’m writing about the latter since I read it more recently so it’s fresher in my head. Though I don’t want […] read full post >>