Two novels of Mexico
Subtitle: The flies. The bosses.
By: Translated from the Spanish by Lesley Byrd Simpson.
Edition: [1st English ed.]
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction.
Other titles: The flies.; The bosses.
Description: In 1910, in a still relatively tranquil world, the Mexican revolution exploded--the sinister quiet of the Diaz dictatorship was broken by Villa and Zapata and their avenging mobs of peons and vaqueros. Mariano Azuela, most famous Mexican author of his day, was a doctor in Villa's army. Taking refuge in El Paso after Villa's defeat, he wrote a series of poignant sketches, together with the full-length novel, The Underdogs, which is considered a masterpiece of Hispanic American literature. The Flies and The Bosses, two remarkable vignettes of the revolution (here translated into English for the first time) were written in hot anger, direct from life; they show Azuela as a skeptic and realist who was nevertheless full of charity for his troubled people.--Cover.
Notes: Translation of Las moscas y domitilo quiere ser diputado and Los caciques.