Pedro Páramo, A Metaphor for the End of the World

In Rulfo's novel, popular Catholic culture functions as an ideology and as such, it encompasses the totality of the represented universe. Because reality is only captured through ideology, there is no criterion in the novel that is outside ideology and which would therefore offer a critical sta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julio Ortega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1990-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol14/iss1/4