Los De Abajo

The author (1873-1952) knows first-hand what he writes about because he joined as a doctor an army that was part of Pancho Villa’s forces in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-14. What he saw and later wrote about soured him on the Revolution. He came to believe that the social justice being promoted by......more

Strong fiction set in the middle of the Mexican Revolution. This review is bilingual. First, you will find the English version and after that one, you will find the Spanish version. Esta crítica es bilingüe. Primero, encontrarán la versión en Inglés, y luego de esa, encontrarán la versión en Españ......more

Underdogs often command some degree of sympathy, simply because they are fighting against superior odds. And at least some of the Mexican revolutionaries who fight their way through Mariano Azuela’s 1915 novel The Underdogs will no doubt enlist reader sympathies – even as the thoughtful reader may q......more

Casi me duermo leyendo esto, ya que para ser corto se me hizo largo y pesado. Muy aburrido y con poca chicha por masticar. Entiendo que la idea es mostrar la violencia de una época bastante tensa en la historia mexicana pero los personajes son esbozos, panfletos que abogan por una personalidad y prin......more