... to Comala, years in which he becomes the brutal, land-usurping don Pedro, his vision of Susana remains otherworldly. As a fetishized goddess, the Susana San Juan of Pedro Paramo's imagination exhibits the iconography traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary--which includes the Virgin's paradoxically chaste sensuality. His obsession for Susana San Juan is clearly sexual, but his worshipful devotion ... 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 Paradi...

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