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A review by oversherin
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
challenging
4.0
“What do you really understand?”
This is stated by one of the ghosts near the middle of the story and sums up my experience of the book! I was glad to read the foreword to understand what I was getting into. It took me a couple tries to read this book, but when I was in the right headspace I really enjoyed it and read it in one sitting. (With a plot summary that I checked in on every once in a while!)
Some of the lines are so incredible and the book reads like a movie at times. At other times a Greek tragedy. It’s cool to see the influence it has on other Latin magical realism. I enjoyed this book more knowing its significance in the context of literature. If I didn’t know that, I probably would have been more frustrated than amazed. But very glad I read it and will likely read it again.
This is stated by one of the ghosts near the middle of the story and sums up my experience of the book! I was glad to read the foreword to understand what I was getting into. It took me a couple tries to read this book, but when I was in the right headspace I really enjoyed it and read it in one sitting. (With a plot summary that I checked in on every once in a while!)
Some of the lines are so incredible and the book reads like a movie at times. At other times a Greek tragedy. It’s cool to see the influence it has on other Latin magical realism. I enjoyed this book more knowing its significance in the context of literature. If I didn’t know that, I probably would have been more frustrated than amazed. But very glad I read it and will likely read it again.