![]() Pedro Páramo, who inherited a typical medium-sized Jalisco hacienda (Harss 81) after the murder of his father, has gained immense prosperity and power by dint of violence and cunning. Its demise is largely the consequence of the abuse of power by the landowner and the priest, the cacique Pedro Páramo and padre Rentería, who are seen as the ‘last manifestations of a society in the process of extinction’ (Escalante, ‘Lectura’ 301–2), members of a ‘neo-feudal and patriarchal society crumbling from narcissistic inertia’ (Stanton 974). The structure of the society is feudal, but feudalism hollowed out in its centre and devoid of living and binding values (Franco 154). Pedro Páramo is the story of the physical and spiritual death of Comala, a community in rural Jalisco, from the time of the porfiriato in the 1880s through the 1910 Revolution, the Cristero Rebellion of 1926 and up to the death of its initial narrator, probably in the 1940s. En la mutilación de la metralla Ramón López Velarde ![]()
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