Pedro Páramo
Written by Juan Rulfo
Narrated by Thom Rivera
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“One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole.” —Jorge Luis Borges
The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez
A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met—Pedro Páramo—but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Although initially published to a quiet reception, Pedro Páramo was soon recognized as a major novel that has served as a touchstone text for writers including Mario Vargas Llosa and José Donoso.
Now published in a new translation from the definitive Spanish edition by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Weatherford, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez, this new edition of the novel cements its place as one of the seminal literary texts of the twentieth century.
Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo (México, 1917-1986) é talvez o autor sul-americano mais comentado, elogiado e imitado do século xx. Toda a sua obra literária conhecida, que reunida pouco ultrapassa as 300 páginas, é considerada como fundadora, origem de uma nova forma de literatura, que deu lugar a escritores como Gabriel García Márquez, um dos seus mais famosos e reconhecidos devedores. De Pablo Neruda a Carlos Fuentes, de Octávio Paz a Jorge Luis Borges e Juan Carlos Onetti, abundam os testemunhos de admiração dos seus pares e o assombro e desconcerto da crítica. Em contraste com este enorme rumor a rodear a escassa obra de Rulfo, está o silêncio em que desapareceu o escritor desde a publicação, em 1955, de Pedro Páramo e até à sua morte, em Janeiro de 1986. Silêncio este apenas interrompido pela revelação esporádica, por parte de jornalistas, da iminente “saída” de uma nova novela, La cordillera, que acabou por se tornar mítica. As tentativas de explicar esta prematura interrupção da escrita de um dos mais marcantes escritores contemporâneos no auge da sua fama contribuiu para aprofundar a «lenda Rulfo», não faltando comparações com a de Rimbaud. Em finais de 1958 escreveu a sua segunda novela, O Galo de Ouro concebida originalmente para servir como argumento para cinema e publicada em livro em 1980. Vencedor do Prémio Nacional de Literatura, em 1970 Juan Rulfo é hoje um nome cimeiro da Literatura Mundial, estando a sua obra traduzida em mais de cinquenta línguas
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