Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo, published in 1955, tells of Juan Preciado, who promises his dying mother to find his father in Comala and meets a town of spectral voices. It met a cold reception at the start, later became widely acclaimed, and influenced Gabriel García Márquez. Ave Barrera calls Comala a powerful mythical universe of abandonment and loss, and says she and Rulfo come from the same place. Grove Press published Margaret Sayers Peden’s translation.