Pedro Páramo

Rulfo's Comala, a town of murmuring dead: the novel Latin American magic realism grew from.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Juan Rulfo

type

Magic realist novel

era

Latin American Boom (1955)

language

Spanish

setting

Comala, Jalisco, Mexico

parts

1 volume

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• It was the second of the only two books of fiction Rulfo published in his lifetime.
• Juan Preciado arrives in Comala to find a town of the dead whispering.
• García Márquez credited it as the direct source of his own method.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Pedro Páramo