![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s sense of ghostliness and surrealism also helped plant the seeds that would later grow into magical realism, and was cited as a central influence by the likes of Gabriel García Márquez, who went on to win the Nobel Prize. Pedro Páramo would arguably go on to become the defining novel of Mexico’s twentieth century, inspiring the writers of Latin America’s “Boom” generation and helping to usher in a new age of literature across the continent. Rulfo’s literary reputation rests on just two slim books-the short story collection El Llano en llamas ( The Plain in Flames), first published in 1953, and the novel Pedro Páramo, released two years later. “You could smell it the way you can smell a fire,” the story’s nameless narrator recounts, “it’s so loud you can only see mouths opening and closing as if they want to say something but you can’t hear a word.” For hours he stands with his sister at the edge of a ravine, watching as the river swells and grows dark, swallowing bridges and spilling into the homes and streets of their town. The river is brown and roaring, a destructive force ravaging the landscape and assaulting the senses. I n the short story “Es que somos muy pobres,” Juan Rulfo describes a river bursting its banks. ![]()
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