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

New film of Juan Rulfo's revered novel, considered founding text of magic realism, is first film adaptation in half a century

I came to Comala because I was told that my father lived here, a certain Pedro Paramo."

Many Mexicans know the first sentence of Juan Rulfo's revered novel, Pedro Paramo, 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 Garcia Marquez to write One Hundred Years of Solitude.