The Underdogs - Softcover

Azuela, Mariano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595406786 ISBN 13: 9781595406781

Publisher: 1st World Library, 2004

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mariano Azuela, the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career early; in 1896 he published Impressions of a Student in a weekly of Mexico City. This was followed by numerous sketches and short stories, and in 1911 by his first novel, Andres Perez, maderista. Like most of the young Liberals, he supported Francisco I. Madero's uprising, which overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, and in 1911 was made Director of Education of the State of Jalisco. After Madero's assassination, he joined the army of Pancho Villa as doctor, and his knowledge of the Revolution was acquired at firsthand. When the counterrevolutio-nary forces of Victoriano Huerta were temporarily triumphant, he emigrated to El Paso, Texas, where in 1915 he wrote The Underdogs (Los de abajo), which did not receive general recognition until 1924, when it was hailed as the novel of the Revolution.

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From the Publisher:

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Arguedas, Deep Rivers (ISBN 9781577662440); Arguedas, Yawar Fiesta (ISBN 9781577662457); Asturias, The President (ISBN 9780881339512); and Azuela, Los de Abajo: Novela de la Revolucion Mexicana (ISBN 9780881336627).

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e greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela’s masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political disillusionment.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st World Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1595406786
• ISBN 13: 9781595406781
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196