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Books like Pedro Páramo 1955
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Pedro Páramo
Books closest to Pedro Páramo
El llano en llamas 1953Also grave, prestige and earnest
Austerlitz 2001Also grave, prestige and contemplative
The Sound and the Fury 1929Also prestige, grave and contemplative
A Mercy 1998Also grave, prestige and earnest
The House of the Dead 1881Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Wide Sargasso Sea 1966Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Dora Bruder 1997Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Split Tooth 2018Also grave, prestige and earnest
Benang 1999Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Heart of Darkness 1899Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Let us now praise famous men 1941Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Tod in Rom 1961Also grave, prestige and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Meek's Cutoff 2011Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Ivan's Childhood 1962Also grave, prestige and earnest
Valhalla Rising 2010Also grave, contemplative and prestige
Series
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2025Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Dekalog 1989Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Aoi Bungaku Series 2009Also grave, prestige and earnest
Albums
- Untrue 2007Also grave, earnest and prestige
- Thunder Perfect Mind 1992Also grave, prestige and earnest
- The Terror 2013Also grave, earnest and character-led
Games
Kentucky Route Zero 2013Also prestige, grave and contemplative
Désiré 2016Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Yume Nikki 2004Also contemplative, grave and open-ended
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