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  • Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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Pedro Páramo: by Juan Rulfo (Translated by Douglas J. Weatherford)

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While it’s never explained until the last page of its afterword, the newest translator of Pedro Páramo notes that the novel’s titular surname, in its Spanish original form, is a term for “wasteland.” Yet even this word reduces the resonance of, literally, its range. This bio-geographic designation limns a muted layer of a sharp, vertiginous terrain. Above high treelines, a páramo resembles more a moor than King Lear’s blasted heath. It soaks up melted snow and cloudy vapors.
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