Peter Malmö gives a Wisconsin makeover to Pedro Páramo

by Alejandro A. Riera

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 […] The post <i>Peter Malmö</i> gives a Wisconsin makeover to <i>Pedr…