![]() ![]() The novel narrated the same events that were being reported and commented on in the pages of El Paso del Norte, the Spanish-language newspaper in El Paso, Texas, that published the novel in folletin form in 1915. ![]() A document that virtually antecedes the journalistic and graphic reports of contemporary wars, The Underdogs was conceived and presented as "Pictures and Scenes of the Present Revolution", that is, as a realist depiction of what was happening in Mexico at the time. In his article "La novela mexicana frente al porfirismo" John Brushwood observes that Mariano Azuela's The Underdogs was seen by most Mexicansas a novel that, having captured the essence of the revolutionary commotion that followed the fall of Porfirio Diaz, had the function to define the Mexican nation. ![]()
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