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The underdogs : a novel of the Mexican Revolution
- Title
- The underdogs : a novel of the Mexican Revolution / Mariano Azuela ; translated by E. Munguía, Jr ; illustrated by J.C. Orozco ; with a foreword by Harriet de Onís.
- Author
- Azuela, Mariano, 1873-1952.
- Publication
- [New York] : New American Library, 1963.
- ©1962
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- Description
- 151 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "Ten years after its publication in a small El Paso paper, The Underdogs achieved world-wide renown as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution. It is the story of Demetrio Macías, a naïve, peace-loving Indian, who is forced to side with the rebels to save his family. In the course of battle, he becomes a compulsive militarist whose courage, almost despite himself, leads to a generalship in Villa's army. But as the Cause suffers defeat after defeat, Macías loses prestige and moral purpose at the hands of turncoats, camp followers, and the peasants who had once loved him. Carleton Beals wrote of this novel, "The scenes have the brutality of Gorky. Azuela is the Mexican Chekhov only in so much as he is a doctor; in all else he is close to Gorky, with a touch of Gorky's terrific pessimism, but none of Gorky's revolutionary optimism."" --
- Series Statement
- A Signet classic ; CP119
- Uniform Title
- Los de abajo. English
- Signet classic ; CP119.
- Alternative Title
- Los de abajo.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- War stories.
- War stories
- War fiction
- Fiction
- History
- War fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 151).
- LCCN
- 63002763
- OCLC
- ocm00248786
- 248786
- SCSB-9188706
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library