Showing posts with label Jim Lewis. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The Perfect Novel You’ve Never Heard Of / Rediscovering Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo

 

Juan Rulfo

The Perfect Novel You’ve Never Heard Of

Rediscovering Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo.


It’s a very strange book; let me admit that at the outset. It’s as primitive and uncanny as a folk tale, plain-spoken but infinitely complex, a neat little metaphysical machine—one of those small, perfect books that remake the world out of paradox, like Waiting for Godot, or Nadja