Pedro Paramo: Edicion conmemorativa 70 anos

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"Pedro Páramo is one of the best novels of Spanish-language literature, and even of literature." —Jorge Luis BorgesPublished with Fundación Juan Rulfo. Juan Preciado makes a promise to his dying mother that he will travel to the town of Comala in search of his father, the titular character. Instead, Juan encounters a ghost town that relays to him the fragmented history of his father's cruel and violent life, and how he led Comala to ruin. Though met with an unwelcome critical reception in the years after its publication, Pedro Páramo has ascended into the canon of Mexican literature and magical realism writ large, thanks in no small part to its star-studded list of devotees. Gabriel García Márquez called it "the most beautiful novel ever written in the Spanish language," while Susan Sontag proclaimed: "The goal of every writer's life is to produce one great book—that is, an enduring work—and that is what Rulfo achieved."Commemorating the 70th edition of its original publication, this S