"The Fractal Structure of "Pedro Páramo

This study applies the metaphor of the fractal to Juan Rulfo's enigmatic novel. It begins by focusing on the description of Pedro's death and the impact its placement at the end of the novel has on the reader. It then proceeds to identify the source of the fractal form reiterated throughout the fragments, describing it as an intense feeling of being condemned to existing in a present moment that can never attain to fullness. There is no transcendence and no rest for the inhabitants of Comala, who in the narrative present are all dead. This limbo state is mirrored ironically in the ambiguities of the two versions of Juan Preciado's death that divide the novel into two roughly symmetrical parts. Pedro's death gives the reader a vantage point beyond Comala, whose life-in-death stalemate invites comparison with the post-revolutionary Mexico of Rulfo's experience

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