Mariano Azuela’s 1916 Revolutionary novel “The Underdogs” provided not only the earliest break with traditional Mexican literary architecture, but the earliest break with what would become the institutionalized myth that Mexico’s 1910-1929 Revolution was ushering in democracy. “Los de Abajo” (the novel’s Spanish title) actually was his second novel sounding the death knell of the revolutionary idealism of both Mexican intellectuals and peasants. The first, “Andrés Perez, maderista,” was didactic and dry.
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