... a sharper critical focus. How does he emphasize her sensuality? How is her sexual fulfillment portrayed in the text? How does her eroticism intersect with her madness? Literary criticism on Pedro Paramo (which is mostly in Spanish) has not taken up these questions when exploring the character of Susana San Juan. Burton's essay, for example, merely points at Susana's eroticism without ... Susana San Juan in these elegiac passages with a resplendent, blinding light that signals her entrance into Paradise (a point reinforced, somewhat unnecessarily, by the mention of the Paradise tree). Ped...

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