The fantastic-marvellous in Pedro Páramo

Authors

  • Silvia Quezada Camberos Universidad de Guadalajara
  • Akira Ivan Villalpando Medina Universidad de Guadalajara

Keywords:

Mexican literature, Mexican novel, Tzvetan Todorov, Authors from Jalisco, Juan Rulfo

Abstract

The novel Pedro Páramo is part of the foundations of magical realism in Latin America. To classify this piece in a single tradition might seem to be a Manichaean action, as opposed to creative freedom. This paper intends to observe that the Rulfian novel could belong to the fantastic and marvellous genres, but in their conceptual union. For this task, Tzvetan Todorov’s Introduction à la littérature fantastique has been taken as a base in order to assemble and analyse this association, considering through a syncretic lens the elements that make it up. It can be argued that the hypothesis of the ghostly presence and its peak moment in the deaths, whispers, and desolations is feasible, because, through the disappearance of both the ghosts-characters’ and Pedro Páramo’s readers’ hesitation, the literary piece falls squarely in the fantastic-marvelous genre.

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Published

2019-06-28

How to Cite

Quezada Camberos, S., & Villalpando Medina, A. I. (2019). The fantastic-marvellous in Pedro Páramo. Sincronía, 23(76), 296–312. Retrieved from https://revistasincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/sincronia/article/view/599

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 76 (2019): July-December

Section

LETRAS

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