{"id":31,"date":"2018-08-01T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:09:48","slug":"pedro-paramo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/01\/pedro-paramo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meet your beloved ghosts again!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Genre: magical realism<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 4.04<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 5<br \/>\nAvailable on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgJJC7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As soon as I opened the book, I recognised the sensation, the feeling you get when you are reading a book where something surreal is being presented as ordinary. Soon I became sure it was written by somebody who was copying Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez. I usually despise the impostors. This time, though, I didn\u2019t want the imitator to stop. It was good, authentic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is selfish but when Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez passed away, my first thought was:<i> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2n1vAzi\">One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/a><\/i> will never happen again. I felt orphaned. But now, here it was, a mystical world, flowing from the pages, resurrected. The resemblance was so strong it made me want to cry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I then did my research on the book and quickly discovered that I got the connection right, but mixed up the sequence. Juan Rulfo was not copying Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez. He wrote <i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgJJC7\">Pedro Paramo<\/a><\/i> long before <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/i> even existed.\u00a0M\u00e1rquez got a copy of <i>Pedro Paramo<\/i> and loved it so much, he learned it by heart, \u201cforwards and backwards\u201d, as he said. That was<i> Pedro Paramo<\/i> that inspired M\u00e1rquez to create <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/i>. I was not reading an impostor but a predecessor. Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez opened the doors that Juan Rulfo had found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you love <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/i>, read <i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgJJC7\">Pedro Paramo<\/a><\/i> and meet your beloved ghosts again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you miss One Hundred Years of Solitude you can meet your beloved ghosts again in this book. <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/01\/pedro-paramo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[123,271,333,432,443,452,488,500,507],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-01-at-15-50-31-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}