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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Books #PedroPáramo #Dune 10 Greatest Book Masterpieces of the 20th Century http://dlvr.it/TTszkJ
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Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo
A couple of months ago I did a post about the Guardian’s list of what it deemed to be the 100 best novels of all time. One book on that list was Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo. I’d never heard of it before, and was delighted to receive a gift of it (and relieved that it was an English translation from the original Spanish). I’ve just finished reading it.
The story, set in Mexico, begins with a character called Juan Preciado, who promises to his mother on her deathbed that he will travel to a place called Comala to find his father, whom he has never met before. The book begins with a conventional first-person narrative by Preciado about his journey, but soon dissolves when he reaches his destination into complex fragments told in different voices. Thereafter the tale resolves itself into a series of conversations and encounters, but the precise sequence of these is difficult to discern. For instance, about halfway through the book we discover that everything that has happened is actually a flashback to much earlier events. We never find out whether the events depicted are memories or hallucinations nor whether the characters are alive or dead. It’s as if Preciado has wandered into two parallel versions of Comala, one populated by the living and one by ghosts. The original narrator himself dies but then carries on the narration as a ghost.
This is a highly original and deeply mysterious novel. Very little in this book is what it seems at first reading. It’s only 123 pages long (in the Edition I have), but it took me quite a while for me to find a path through the labyrinth, and even then I found much of it unfathomable, but I think that is precisely what it is supposed to be.
P.S. The Edition I have has a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, who cites Rulfo as an inspiration. It’s been a long time since I read his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude but I remember it well enough to see the influence.
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Netflix Doubles Down On Mexican Film: New Slate Includes Diego Luna In ‘México 86’ & Adaptation Of Carlos Fuentes Novel ‘Aura’
#News #Aura #CarlosFuentes #DiegoLuna #Mexico #Netflix #PedroParamohttps://deadline.com/2025/08/diego-luna-mexico-86-netflix-film-slate-aura-carlos-fuentes-1236485160/
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¿Vieron la adaptación reciente al #cine de "Pedro Páramo", la #novela de Juan #Rulfo?
Aquí escribí acerca de ella.https://albertoyraquel.substack.com/p/pedro-paramo-la-pelicula
#JuanRulfo #PedroPáramo #LiteraturaMexicana #LibrosClásicos #libroverso #literaverso -
Mexican ‘Roma’ & ‘Eddington’ Costume Designer Anna Terrazas Reveals Unease When Crossing Mexico-U.S. Border Under Trump Presidency
#Festivals #News #AnnaTerrazas #BardoFalseChronicleOfAHandfulofTruths #Eddington #Mexico #Netflix #PedroParamo #Romahttps://deadline.com/2025/04/mexican-costume-designer-fears-mexico-u-s-border-trump-1236363197/
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Netflix Pledges $1BN For Mexican Films & Series As Ted Sarandos Tells President Sheinbaum “We Share Your Vision Of A Vibrant, Prosperous Mexico”
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Rodrigo Prieto On The Story Behind His Directorial Debut ‘Pedro Páramo’ & Why He Was Offended By “Inauthentic” Mexican Portrayal In ‘Emilia Pérez’ — Camerimage
#News #Camerimage #CamerimageFilmFestival #EmiliaPérez #PedroPáramo #RodrigoPrieto -
Pedro Páramo | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://youtu.be/nRq7niwEgSM?si=uOyksrbT9zvwLeyP
##PedroParamo #juanrulfo #rodrigoprieto #ManuelGarcia-Rulfo #DoloresHeredia #TenochHuerta #pelicula #movie #netflix
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‘Pedro Páramo’ Review: Rodrigo Prieto Respectfully Adapts One of Mexico’s Most Famous Novels in Surreal Debut
#Variety #Reviews #PedroParamo #RodrigoPrieto #TorontoFilmFestivalhttps://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/pedro-paramo-review-rodrigo-prieto-1236203202/
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Pedro Páramo - Watch the trailer for Rodrigo Prieto's adaptation of Juan Rulfo's novel https://bit.ly/488FXac
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TIFF 2024 Review: Pedro Páramo – “the visual language is of a Hell on Earth worthy of Dante’s Inferno.” Read it here https://bit.ly/3zkZdED
#PedroParamo #film #RodrigoPrieto #TIFF #TIFF24 @TIFF_NET
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Aquí está mi reseña de #PedroPáramo, la #película de #RodrigoPrieto, basada en la #novela de #JuanRulfo. ¿Cómo se adapta al clásico más grande de la #literatura mexicana?
https://open.substack.com/pub/albertoyraquel/p/pedro-paramo-la-pelicula?r=1zpad
#LiteraturaMexicana #cine #adaptaciones #novelas #Netflix #libroverso #literaverso #AlbertoyRaquel
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Estoy terminando mi #reseña de #PedroPáramo, la #película. Sale mañana. Estén pendientes de este espacio…
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If any of my Masto friends do eventually watch the movie or read the book I'd be happy to know what you think! 😊
I hope this thread wasn't too boring. I just get very passionate about this book. 🙃
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Will Rodrigo Prieto, the director of this latest adaptation, succeed where others have failed?
It is hard to say, but I think not. Anyone who has read the book will probably understand why it is "impossible" to adapt.
With that being said I think that Prieto's film is exciting for several reasons, even if it will probably not live up to the hype. This was a debut director who comes from a background in cinematography. Even looking at the poster, I can already tell this film will be visually striking, offering an interpretation of the story that only modern filmmaking and visual effects could afford.
For this reason alone, I can't wait to watch this movie when it comes out. Even if I know it won't reproduce the magic of Rulfo's words.
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On to the movie adaptations!
Such an important work has obviously found its way to the silver screen (and theatre, but that's for another time).
There have been 3 major film adaptations that have been released before the current one that is about to come out. Two of which are considered major cinematographic works on their own right.
However, the consensus is that, for all their merits, none of the adaptations so far has been successful in capturing what makes the book so special.
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Why re-read this book? Well, as I said, the story is not linear nor straightforward. Re-reading it will simply help you understand it better.
But beyond that, it has beautiful prose and themes that will resonate with lots of people. I won't dive deeper into it, there is a long tradition of writing about this book and Rulfo's work in general. A cursory search on the internet will produce countless essays, videos, and even Mastodon threads (😜) discussing the significance and themes of Pedro Páramo.
What I like to tell people who are approaching it for the first time, especially those that don't come from Mexico, is that in my opinion this small tome encapsulates my home country better than any other piece of art and media ever produced since. To read Pedro Páramo is, in a way, to read the history of Mexico itself. A place haunted by the memory of its forebears, where past and present cohabitate in strange and often fascinating ways.
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The premise of the book is relatively simple: a man returns to his mother's birth town in search of his long-lost father. Lurking behind the plot is a strange and atmospheric tale of vengeance that is sometimes called a "ghost story".
Despite being relatively short, it is not an easy book to read. It jumps around in time, and many characters are not what they initially seem. The dialogue is sparse and ethereal. There are even diagrams to help people piece the story back together. Part of the fun is to try to figure out what is happening at any given moment and (more importantly) when.
It is also a book that benefits from multiple reads. Personally, I try to re-read it every couple of years and I discover new things each time. It helps that the book is so short, so you could even read it two times in a row.
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The novel "Pedro Páramo" was originally published in 1955 by Juan Rulfo. Before this, he had already published a widely acclaimed collection of short stories "El Llano en Llamas" (sometimes translated as "The Burning Plain" in English).
It is widely considered the best Mexican novel of the 20th century, if not the best Mexican novel of all time. It also features often as one of the best books ever written in the Spanish language.
If you have not yet read it, I cannot recommend it enough. I am biased (of course), not just because I'm Mexican, but I'm also from the same region as the author and my grandfather grew up in the area that inspired this story.
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My favourite book of all time "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo is getting its fourth (!) movie, premiering at TIFF this month and out on Netflix in November.
I don't expect much, but I am still excited for the possibility of more people from all over the world being exposed to this story. This thread will offer a bit of context on the book, this latest movie adaptation, and my thoughts about this in general. 🤓
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Las traducciones de #PedroPáramo, comparadas. Gran artículo de J. D. Torres Duarte.
#literatura #LiteraturaMexicana #traducción #JuanRulfo #libros #LibrosRecomendados #libroverso #literaverso
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Spent my Saturday morning rereading my favourite book of all time #PedroPáramo. I try to reread it every couple of years and every time I do, I find new things to love about it.
The complexity of the narrative structure, the imagery in the writing, the atmosphere, all of it, sublime.
“Estrellas fugaces. Las luces en Comala se apagaron. Entonces el cielo se adueñó de la noche..” ✨”Shooting stars. One by one, the lights in Comala went out. Then the sky took over the night.”
Quote by #JuanRulfo (translation to English by Margaret Sayers Peden).
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Mi primera columna de este año, hablando sobre mi primera lectura de 𝙋𝙚𝙙𝙧𝙤 𝙋𝙖́𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙤, de Juan Rulfo.
#Libros #Lecturas #Columnas #PedroPáramo #JuanRulfo #Novelas #Narrativa