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Summary: I love this book.
Review: The book is very good and very well written. The book is about a man named Juan, who is off to Comala, becuase of a promise he made his mother on her death bed. The promise was to go back to Comala in search for his father. He arrives to the town not knowing what the town is all about. As he goes in search for his father, the mystry continues and the plot thickens.
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Summary: Among novels it is analogous to a First Growth wine.
Review: The more time you spend with this great novel the more beauty and complexity you discover. The poetic characteristics are evidenced in the first few paragraphs, wherein each sentence derives much of it's impact and meaning from the context of the preceeding sentences and simultaneously imparts deeper meaning to them. The meaning and the structure of Pedro Paramo are inextricably intertwined. It is a masterpiece.
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Summary: i must say...for IB it's great
Review: This book is a great book for the IB curriculum if the teachers are rooting for you to fail...this is what i thought the first time i read this book...then i read it again and again and again. and i annotated passages and went online to search for the answer...then i relaized there was no answer, Rulfo wanted us, as the readers, to believe whatever we want to believe about the town of Comala and Preciado's end. This book is timeless, switches between first and third person narrative, past and present and shows how one man's endeavor to find his father can become a surrealistic tale involving the souls of the dead who wander in Limbo around Comala waiting...we see the greivances of father renteria; the murdering rapist miguel; the suicide of eduviges. we see the sins the people of Comala were driven to under the rule of Preciado's father, paramo, which means wasteland. Rulfo shows us how Comala became a ghost town through seemingly unconnected narratives of events in the past, of Preciado's mothers marriage to paramo and the reasons behind it; Their wedding night, which never happened; paramo as he grew up; we follow paramo through the death of the only son he acknowledged; and finally, through the death of his last wife, Susana, who was in love with a dead man. Susana is the 'final nail in the coffin' as she was the onbly thing that could have saved Comala from what was otherwise an inevitable fate.
This book is amazing for those who have an open-mind, read it carefully, and dont try to hard to understand it...
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Summary: The best mexican book
Review: This book is incredible. You can watch interaction with LA DIVINA COMEDIA in many things about the way to the Hell(INFERNO in Pedro Páramo is Comala). Juan Rulfo was the best writer from Mexico who oly wrote two books, but of incredible quality. I'm mexican and I want to recomend this book. Because I think you can understand many things about mexican culture and the relation between mexican culture and the death. In my opinion the best book from Mexico. All coments are wellcome in my e-mail adress(Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian)
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Summary: Not much to say.....
Review: This book is so good, Rulfo wrote this and just one other, and he won the Nobel Prize. This may well be the best book I have ever read.I have never found an author which can play with time planes in the way Rulfo does.
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Summary: Confusing
Review: This book is the most boring and confusing book I've ever read. God, what the hell was Juan Rulfo thinking when he wrote this book? I mean The story is great, but it doesn't have flow. I mean I like it because it reminds me so of the other novels I've read a while ago. I'm thinking about reading it again. I might change my mind when I read it again. Then I might give it more start.
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Summary: All the depth of a cheerleading squad
Review: This book is trash! It has the same amount of depth and enjoyment as a Carrot Top movie. Some critics consider this a masterpiece, but it's not. The plot is unintelligable. It's my personal opinion that Juan Rulfo wrote this story after taking a few too many hits of acid. The narration constantly switches between random, unknown characters, and often, the reader is left clueless as to who is narrating the novel. The story isn't haunting, exciting, or memorable, rather it's like rape, it's something that you hope you can just repress and try and move on.
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Summary: way to confusing!!!
Review: this book is way to confusing when you read it. You must keep detailed notes of everything just to get some points.
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Summary: IB Education's Greatest Weapon: IB @ St. Petersburg High, FL
Review: This book will always remain my favorite of all the "odd" literature I was forced to read for IB English. The mystery, the silences, the surrealness of the entire world without being magical realism. It was a story where nothing really happened, and yet an entire town was brought to life. So much was said with so little. I still cannot believe that only 124 pages spanned the entire story. It is an amazing read, and from the Latin American perspective, it is considered to be on of the best (and most complicated) texts available. Juan Rulfo, you are an artist!
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Summary: distinctively scattered
Review: This book, although the plot could be interesting, it jumps without any clues from present to past, life to death. I was too busy thinking about what part of the story I was in to really appreciate the story line. After I read several pages, I got to actually think about what was going on. The book can be enjoyed, because I think the story line could be interesting just too much detail is involved. I don't reccomend it.
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