Inherited Inequalities in the Land of Pedro Páramo
“I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Páramo, lived there.” Thus, Juan Rulfo began Pedro Páramo, one of the masterpieces in Spanish-language literature. In this Mexican novel, the past continues to influence the present up until the point where the two of them overlap. The line that differentiates them subtly vanishes.
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