Los de Abajo
Author: Azuela, Mariano
ISBN: 9780140266214
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Aug 1997
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
In this deeply moving picture of the turmoil of the first great revolution of the twentieth century-the Mexican Revolution of 1910-Azuela depicts the anarchy and the idealism, the base human passions and the valor and nobility of the simple folk, and, most striking of all, the fascination of revolt-that peculiar love of revolution for revolution's sake that has characterized most of the social upheavals of the twentieth century. b>Los de Abajo/b> is considered "the only novel of the Revolution" and, since the spring of 1925, has been published in several languages and more than twenty-seven editions. Azuela's writing is sometimes racy and virile, sometimes poetic and subdued, but always in perfect accord with the mood and character of the story.
ISBN: 9780140266214
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Aug 1997
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
In this deeply moving picture of the turmoil of the first great revolution of the twentieth century-the Mexican Revolution of 1910-Azuela depicts the anarchy and the idealism, the base human passions and the valor and nobility of the simple folk, and, most striking of all, the fascination of revolt-that peculiar love of revolution for revolution's sake that has characterized most of the social upheavals of the twentieth century. b>Los de Abajo/b> is considered "the only novel of the Revolution" and, since the spring of 1925, has been published in several languages and more than twenty-seven editions. Azuela's writing is sometimes racy and virile, sometimes poetic and subdued, but always in perfect accord with the mood and character of the story.
