Considered a precursor to magical realism (Gabriel García Márquez claims that reading it gave him the key to mapping out the story for One Hundred Years of Solitude), Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo demands far more attention from the reader than its slim 120-plus pages seem to suggest at first. Not an easy breeze […]
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In Pedro Páramo, magic realism isn’t hocus-pocus
Cuba’s Teatro Buendía adapts the landmark Mexican novel Pedro Páramo for the Latino Theatre Festival.