The Promise to a Dying Mother

Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo (1955) begins with a promise. Juan Preciado travels to Comala to find his father, Pedro Páramo, because he promised his dying mother that he would.

Categories Mexico, Agreements, Sacred Word Tags literature

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