Sensuality in Pedro Paramo

• When we begin to read Pedro Paramo it is not obvious at first that we are entering the underworld, a place of the dead, Comala.
• We follow along the journey with Juan Preciado, thinking that he is going to find his father’s roots.                              
• Strange things begin to happen, once he gets to the town, everything looks barren, no doors on the buildings and desolate.
• Images of people and horses appear and disappear; voices are heard and not heard, murmurs.
• The heat of August intensifies more so, in Comala,
• The smell of death is evident, and the fruit is bitter.
• The confusion rests on our senses, once we accept Juan Rulfo’s world, there is no going back for it has taken us in. We have a perceived notion that when death comes, all life and our senses cease.
• Juan Rulfo presents us an underground world, through the memory of it’s inhabitants, a world full of life and passion. The sins of Comala are replayed over and over in order to find salvation
• When one dies,  All of the senses are at play in Comala.

 TTFN