"Brilliant evocation of el otro México, 'the other Mexico, ' by the writer whose inspiration underlies Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude." – Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Rulfo's memorable images . . . help to fill out the oeuvre of an important Mexican writer." – Publishers Weekly
"Rulfo, through his photographs and his books, seems to be saying, Look! See! This world is here before us, it lacerates us with the anguished and ill-fated weight of its tangible reality. Come look!" – Eduardo Rivero, author of Juan Rulfo's Mexico
"Far from the simple imitative realism of earlier Latin American novels, his essentialist work is on the level of myth and archetype." – Rockwell Gray, The Chicago Tribune
"Rulfo's work is at its core about people who do their best to unburden themselves of the stories they never stop telling." – Peter Orner, The Rumpus
"[Pedro Páramo is] a tale that is firmly rooted in its own culture yet so fundamentally human in its focus that it speaks across cultural borders." – Publishers Weekly
"One of the most influential of the century's books . . . [I]t would be hard to overestimate its impact on literature in Spanish in the last forty years." – Susan Sontag, author of The Benefactor
"The work of Juan Rulfo is not only the highest expression which the Mexican novel has attained until now: through Pedro Páramo we can find the thread that leads us to the new Latin American novel." – Carlos Fuentes, author of La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz)
"What is fascinating about Rulfo . . . is that in one single time frame, he lets the dead and the living coincide. Have conversations." – Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth
"His is a text in which meaning is subsumed into an architecture of shadows and whispers, and into the ebb and flow of the vernacular." – Suhayl Saadi, The Independent
"[Rulfo's] work is built on an intricate lattice of time and space, but it doesn't seem planned so much as grown, something natural, inevitable, efficient, and effortless. All its paradoxes are innate." – Jim Lewis, Slate
"A simplicity and profundity worthy of Greek tragedy . . . Wuthering Heights located in Mexico and written by Kafka." – The Guardian
