Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
In-Person Meeting
October 13, 4:30-6:00 pm Pacific
Dolores Heights, San Francisco
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Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
144 pages 1955
(2023 translation by Douglas Weatherford is well-regarded)
This Mexican novella is widely considered to be masterpiece. Garcia Marquez claimed he could recite it backwards and forwards, and that he'd been blocked in writing 100 Years of Solitude until he discovered Rulfo. Writers from Carlos Fuentes to Luis Borges to Susan Sontag have been similarly smitten. The story is set in a small Mexican town in the early 1900s and begins with the first person account of Juan Preciado, who promises his dying mother that he'll go to the town of Comala to locate his father, Pedro Paramo. Preciado finds Comala to be a ghost town alive with whispers and shadows; its broken down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits, who share the secrets of the past.
Meeting organizer:
Kirsten Miclau
readinggroup@harvardclubsf.org
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