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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Thomas Graham in Mexico City

Netflix adapts Pedro Páramo, the great Mexican novel that inspired Márquez

Tenoch Huerta as Juan Preciado (left) and Noé Hernández as Abundio in the Netflix production of Pedro Páramo
Tenoch Huerta as Juan Preciado (left) and Noé Hernández as Abundio in the Netflix production of Pedro Páramo. Photograph: Carlos Somonte/Netflix

“I came to Comala because I was told that my father lived here, a certain Pedro Páramo.”

Many Mexicans know the first sentence of Juan Rulfo’s revered novel, Pedro Páramo, by heart. This week they will hear it on Netflix, with the release of the first film adaptation in almost 50 years of the text that inspired Gabriel García Márquez to write One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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