The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

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.

Mariano Azuela, the first of the Revolutionary novelists, was born in 1873 in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico. He studied medicine in Guadalajara before returning to Lagos in 1909 to begin practicing medicine. He began his writing career early, with the publication of Impressions of a Student in a Mexico City weekly in 1896. Following that, he wrote numerous sketches and short stories, as well as his first novel, Andres Perez, Maderista, published in 1911. Like most young Liberals, he backed Francisco I. After Madero's assassination, he became a medic in Pancho Villa's army, where he learned about the Revolution firsthand. When Victoriano Huerta's counterrevolutionary forces momentarily triumphed, he went to El Paso, Texas, where he penned The Underdogs (Los de abajo) in 1915, a masterpiece that was not widely recognized until 1924, when it was heralded as the Revolution's novel.Azuela was inherently a moralist, and his dissatisfaction with the Revolution soon began to reveal itself. He had fought for a better Mexico, but he realized that, while the Revolution had remedied some injustices, it had also resulted in the emergence of others that were just as bad. His disillusionment was severe and painful as he witnessed the self-serving and unprincipled turn his expectations for the redemption of his country's disadvantaged into a ladder to serve their own interests.

His later novels are tainted by caustic satire at times. He resided in Mexico City in his later years, until his death in 1952, writing and practicing his vocation among the destitute.

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ISBN 13	9780143105275
ISBN 10	0143105272
Titel	The Underdogs
Autor	Mariano Azuela
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-07-29
Seitenanzahl	176
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