![]() ![]() I was so immersed in this novel that when a mentally ill woman perched next to me on a bench at lunch, I kept looking in her eyes to see if she was a ghost. My mind started stripping away the stories I had rationalized for myself and I started to see everyone as dead. Later, Eduviges tells Juan that Abundio with whom he traveled to town is in fact long dead. ![]() Eduviges has had word from Juan’s dead mother that he is coming-perhaps she is sensitive to the spirit world. ![]() Simple lines like “I saw a woman wrapped in her rebozo she disappeared as if she had never existed” are easily read over and dismissed. ![]() Rulfo does not immediately tell the reader that most of the ghosts Juan encounters are in fact dead, but on some level you can tell. Because the stories told about the lives of the dead are much more detailed and intricate than the stories of Juan Preciado, who is alive at the start of the book, the world of the dead seems more real than the world of the living. Juan Rulfo created a world where the living interact with the dead in such a way that the reader can’t immediately be certain who is living and who is dead, which creates this suspicion that everyone is dead. Pedro Páramo is the spookiest book I’ve read in a long time. ![]()
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