by Mariano Azuela · Jorge Mesta Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495311122
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«Los de abajo» is the novel by Mariano Azuela about the Mexican Revolution, published by Jorge Mesta Editores in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
«Los de abajo» follows Demetrio Macías, a peasant who joins the Mexican Revolution and becomes a guerrilla leader. The novel shows the harshness of armed struggle, the contradictions of the movement, and the disillusionment that ultimately prevails over the revolutionary ideal.
The novel was originally published in 1915; this edition is from 2003 and belongs to the Clásicos Universales collection.
Recommended for readers interested in classic Mexican narrative and the history of the Mexican Revolution.
Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican writer and medical doctor, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest.
