![]() ![]() When his father dies, Pedro finds he is in debt, and he marries Dolores, Juan Preciado's mother, because he owes her family the most money. Juan hears the voices of the other people buried around him and learns stories about the town and its people. Juan himself, after being taken in by a woman and her brother who are living in sin, dies in Comala and is buried there, never able to meet his father, who is now dead as well. Comala turns out to be a kind of purgatory, full of its dead souls, who wander the town, usually unaware that they are dead. In the town, he stays with a woman who is also a wandering soul. He meets a stranger on the road, who later turns out to be dead. The novel opens as Juan Preciado is headed to Comala after his mother's death. Through a complex narrative told from multiple points of view, which skips forward and backward in time, author Juan Rulfo explores the life of don Pedro, a man who is both a villain and a tragic figure. ![]() Pedro Páramo's estranged son, Juan Preciado, comes to find his father after his mother's death, but instead he finds only a town deserted except for its ghosts. ![]()
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