Pedro Paramo Study Guide & Notes

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Pedro Páramo's estranged son, Juan Preciado, comes to find his father after his mother's death, but instead he finds only a town deserted except for its ghosts. Through a complex narrative told from multiple points of view, which skips forward and backward in time, author Juan Rulfo explores the life of don Pedro, a man who is both a villain and a tragic figure.

The novel opens as Juan Preciado is headed to Comala after his mother's death. He meets a stranger on the road, who later turns out to be dead. In the town, he stays with a woman who is also a wandering soul. Comala turns out to be a kind of purgatory, full of its dead souls, who wander the town, usually unaware that they are dead. Juan himself, after being taken in by a woman and her brother who are living in sin, dies in Comala...
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