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Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo (1955) | Book & Film Review

A reflection on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and its adaptation to film (Carlos Velo, 1967). My analysis of the text is based on the new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford, published by Grove Press in 2023. Contents: 00:00 – Intro 01:14 – Quick overview of the story and characters 02:24 – Name symbolism 04:00 – Structure 05:34 – Pedro Páramo as a novella 07:37 – Pedro Páramo as a dictator story 10:57 – Rereading Pedro Páramo 12:50 – The new translation 15:53 – The film adaptation 15:59 – A couple of challenges and an advantage 16:52 – About the film (release, director, screenwriter, etc.) 17:21 – The film's epigraph 18:19 – Mood and setting 19:06 –Acting 20:09 – A connection with Hitchcock's Psycho 20:40 – Differences between the film and the novella 23:53 – Bottom line, and the Borges connection