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The Underdogs

Mariano Azuela

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. . .ich who rule them, change their sweat and blood and tears into gold..."

"Well, what the hell is the gist of all this palaver? I'll be damned if I can stomach a sermon," Pancracio broke in.

"I wanted to fight for the sacred cause of the oppressed, but you don't understand ... you cast me aside.... Very well, then, you can do as you please with me!"

"All I'm going to do now is to put this rope around your neck. Look what a pretty white neck you've got."

"Yes, I know what brought you here," Demetrio interrupted dryly, scratching his head. "I'm going to have you shot!"

Then, looking at Anastasio he said:

"Take him away. And ... if he wants to confess, bring the priest to him."

Impassive as ever, Anastasio took the prisoner gently by the arm.

"Come along this way, Tenderfoot."

They all laughed uproariously, when a few minutes later, Quail appeared in priestly. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Strong fiction set in the middle of the Mexican Revolution.

This review is bilingual. First, you will find the English version and after that one, you will find the Spanish version.

Esta crítica es bilingüe. Primero, encontrarán la versión en Inglés, y luego de esa, encontrarán la versión en Españ

Casi me duermo leyendo esto, ya que para ser corto se me hizo largo y pesado. Muy aburrido y con poca chicha por masticar.

Entiendo que la idea es mostrar la violencia de una época bastante tensa en la historia mexicana pero los personajes son esbozos, panfletos que abogan por una personalidad y prin

“Ο Mariano Azuela, περισσότερο από οποιονδήποτε άλλο μυθιστοριογράφο της Μεξικανικής Επανάστασης, σηκώνει τη βαριά πέτρα της ιστορίας για να δει τι υπάρχει κάτω από αυτό».
- Carlos Fuentes

Η πένα που έγραψε αυτή την νεκρολογία της επανάστασης στη Λατινική Αμερική είναι απο μόνη της ένα μπαρουτοκαπνι

Underdogs often command some degree of sympathy, simply by virtue of the fact that they are fighting against superior odds. And at least some of the Mexican revolutionaries who fight their way through Mariano Azuela’s 1915 novel The Underdogs will no doubt enlist reader sympathies – even as the thou

The author (1873-1952) knows first-hand what he writes about because he joined as a doctor an army that was part of Pancho Villa’s forces in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-14. What he saw and later wrote about soured him on the Revolution. He came to believe that the social justice being promoted by

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