PEDRO PÁRAMO by Juan Rulfo

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Published March 10th 1994 by Grove Press (first published March 19th 1955)
Paperback, Reprint Edition, 128 pages
ISBN 9780802133908
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@lalitborabooks 4 жыл бұрын

Superb review. Worth the wait. Juan Rulfo is a masterpiece indeed and requires multiple readings as you said. Improves with every reading. One of my favourite books ever.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

@warriormedieval 4 жыл бұрын

HI, I'm a colombian who appreciate the Spanish language and just try to practice the English, and believe me, Pedro Paramo speak an unique language that was lost in time. García Márquez said that there is living the poetry on in its maximum expression. Good video. Greetings.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Hello and welcome! I would love to be able to read these works in Spanish. Best of luck with your English journey-seems great so far!

@JuanReads 4 жыл бұрын

Pedro Páramo is indeed a book to be read many times over. Preferably, in one sitting every time.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Well put. Poe would approve of its single-sitting efficacy.

@felipo3473 3 жыл бұрын

I'm watching several reviews on this book, in both spanish and english. You did it too well, thanks man

@LeafbyLeaf 3 жыл бұрын

Hey-thanks so much! This was a great read!

@perritocometotopos 3 жыл бұрын

I live so close from Juan Rulfo's hometown, and I've been to some of the places he mentioned in his short stories and his novel... He's just the best Mexican writer for me, he is so simple but yet so profound. Not so many writers can say as much as Rulfo said in so little pages. He stopped writing according to his words because "he didn't have anything more to say". He was also a great photographer. You should read Juan José Arreola, who was a good friend from Rulfo and another great mexican writer. ☺️

@LeafbyLeaf 3 жыл бұрын

That's so cool! This one, as well as Rulfo's short stories which I've now read, has been a real treat for me as a reader. Thanks for the recommendation. More are welcome!

@leonelrodriguez4010 9 ай бұрын

That insight about Pedro Páramo being a sort of Metamorphoses (Ovid), is very good and inciting.

@LeafbyLeaf 9 ай бұрын

🙏

@Kierkagaard 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. Something I've been meaning to knock off my reading list for a while now.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I feel certain it's time for you to do just that. :)

@estebanmejia3473 4 жыл бұрын

I was waiting so much for this, wow

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Me, too! :-P

@valpergalit 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, as always. I love the new intro you’ve been using, by the way!

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for saying so! I’ve been wondering how people have received it.

@tnan123 4 жыл бұрын

I remember not getting along with this book. Your review makes me want to try pick it up again.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes, of course, books just don't quite "hit" with us. Glad you're thinking of giving it another shot! Let me know what happens.

@danyelaru489 Жыл бұрын

Great review. Every hollywood when i hear ghost town by the speciales i think pedro páramo and comala the ghost town

@siljeblomst1 4 жыл бұрын

Such a great review, Chris! I love this book. Have a wonderful weekend 😊

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Tak, Silje ! You, too!

@andresmora5192 2 жыл бұрын

Pedro Páramo by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo is one of the masterpieces of Latin American literature, it is considered the novel that inaugurated the literary subgenre of "Magical Realism in Latin America". Juan Rulfo's work finally gave me the path I was looking for to continue with my books,” Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez confessed in an interview.

@fc1984fc 2 жыл бұрын

I've come across a reference to this book in Francine Prose's "Reading Like A Writer". It really impressed me, and I thought the mind of the writer must be just as caught in the twists and turns as the story itself in order to produce an account.

@LeafbyLeaf 2 жыл бұрын

This was also a major tenant of Cortázar.

@terileekline 8 ай бұрын

At the top of my TBR

@LeafbyLeaf 8 ай бұрын

It is MAGNIFICENT! 👌

@josedelgado7931 3 жыл бұрын

This is the excellent way to review an excellent book.

@LeafbyLeaf 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@rc93013 3 жыл бұрын

Just finished reading this book last night...now researching all I can to better understand its many nuances...thanks for your thoughts. Am starting to re-read it now...

@LeafbyLeaf 3 жыл бұрын

Such a great book. Made for rereading!

@user-no3fv4xm4r 6 ай бұрын

Great review! I just finished it. You said if the reader can notice one character’s death, while reading it for the first time, is it Juan’s (the narrator-Pedro’s son, the Homeric son looking for his father lol)?

@rafael55 10 ай бұрын

Most people I know agree that you understand it after the third time read.

@LeafbyLeaf 10 ай бұрын

This one definitely demands re-reading.

@Armin6873 4 жыл бұрын

Oh my, is that a Yves Tangy painting as the cover art?

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

For some reason it isn't credited in any of the usual places (back cover, copyright page), but it certainly looks like it!

@timkjazz 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest novels ever written in any language.

@LeafbyLeaf 2 жыл бұрын

Truly. It's high time for a revisit. After I read Pacheco's _Battles in the Desert_ first...

@davidcopson5800 Ай бұрын

Sounds like Salman Rushdie talking about One Hundred Years of Solitude. Not wrong either.

@Pantano63 4 жыл бұрын

Susan Sontag was wrong about many things but she was right about what she said in the thumbnail.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

She also says that it would be hard to overestimate the importance of Rulfo on all of subsequent Spanish literature!

@fess04 2 жыл бұрын

SPECTACULAR REVIEW. thanks so much.

@LeafbyLeaf 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you got something out of it--incredible book!

@fess04 2 жыл бұрын

very moved by the book . i got a copy for my niece as well. i wonder why i didnt see it at the university level as it i found it to be so influential. love your channel too.digging in. subbed .

@rickharsch8797 4 жыл бұрын

Almost as perfect as the book

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks, Rick!

@ayushlimbu5983 5 ай бұрын

Which translation of this title do you suggest to be better equipped with original quality of the texts sir?

@LeafbyLeaf 5 ай бұрын

Well, I'm not sure I can be of too much help here, as I've only read Margaret Sayers Peden's translation, and I've not read the original. :)

@humanfirst11 2 жыл бұрын

Uan Rufo - the name could be written like this 😊

@marinamaccagni5253 4 жыл бұрын

I've read this book twice and I didn't like it. Maybe because I couldn't understand it. Many writers consider Pedro paramo a masterpiece. For me a movie would do this book justice better than reading it. But Your awesome review shed a new light on how I can reread this book. Thank you very much.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear I've swayed you to perhaps give it another shot! Do let me know how it turns out this time.

@123golocholan 3 жыл бұрын

there is a movie about this book and it is for free here in KZfaq unfortunately is in Spanish so if you don't speak Spanish it will be pointless for you.

@omarelric 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, this was unexpected, Juan Rulfo is something else man, there’s an interview for Spanish tv where he cites Faulkner as an inspiration for this book.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

I could see that for sure. Yes. Faulkner. You know--it has been far too long since I've spent some time in Faulkner's world.

@chihabreda6681 4 жыл бұрын

Waiting for your next bookshef tour fiction 😊

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

I need to get on that! By the way, could you contact me through my email (it's on my About tab)?

@tostadadepata 2 жыл бұрын

Pedro Páramo isn't Magical Realism. It's THE Latin American masterpiece though

@LeafbyLeaf 2 жыл бұрын

He is certainly a precursor though. And--boy do I want to read this one again! Thanks for our comment because it has firmly put this treasure back in my hands today.

@tostadadepata 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeafbyLeaf you're welcome. But, and I am seriously saying this with all due respect, there are a lot of misconceptions about Latin American literature in the American academia: Pedro Páramo is considered, yes, a precursor, but of the Latin American Boom. Because of its characteristics, Pedro Páramo is a novel of the "Fantástico" genre (do not confuse with fantasy) given the weight that the supernatural elements have in the narrative, that's contrary to Magical Realism in which the supernatural elements are just extras to the narrative and aren't taken as strange and out of this world, but just as weird occurrences (at most, if not downright accept as the common reality). PS. If you liked Rulfo I would recommend Rosario Castellanos and Elena Garro, and of course, Cartucho by Nellie Campobello.

@chal0s1 3 жыл бұрын

Hello ! Can you review a book by Mario Vargas Llosa?

@LeafbyLeaf 3 жыл бұрын

In fact, I have The War of the End of the World on my list!

@branmabonkaesgard8167 4 жыл бұрын

Not hating, but man, sooo many annoying cuts in the editing. When you seem to not get a single line right without cutting several times it makes it really obvious that you're just reading. I too loved the book when I read it though.

@LeafbyLeaf 4 жыл бұрын

I know, man; I’m pretty bad at this video review thing. Trying to get better at keeping more in my head at one time and maintaining eye contact. I appreciate the criticism!