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 Mariano Azuela's "Underdogs" was an interesting novel. Touted as "the" novel of the Mexican Revolution, I can kinda see why. Personally, I'm not too familiar with the specifics of the Mexican Revolution, but I do know about other revolutions so I... read full post >>

I chose this book because I had heard about it before in a history class in my high school in Spain when we were talking about the Mexican Revolution. I had never read it and I didn’t know much about the story it told, but it always caught my attention due to its historical setting […] read full post >>

Having some prior knowledge on the Mexican Revolution, I think that the Underdogs portrays a real sense of what was going on at the time through this fictional story. Mariano Azuela’s writing is easy to follow and I enjoyed reading The Underdogs. At times it was quite graphic, but it really painted a picture of […] read full post >>

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela tells the story of a group of commoners who were dragged into the Mexican Revolution and how their mindsets change throughout the course of the war. I think it was based off of the author’s own experiences during the war, so that adds a level of authenticity to the whole […] read full post >>

This week’s book, The Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela is vitally important in trying to understand  how the Mexican revolution was lived by revolutionists and those who crossed their path. The book is heavily dialogue driven, revealing the intended nature of the characters while historical events guided the book’s plot. I was regularly enthralled, horrified, and […] read full post >>

Reading Campobello’s Cartuco was an intriguing, thought-provoking, and unique experience for me this past week. As an IR major whose focus area of study is Latin America, I was quite excited to delve into a book pertaining to the Mexican Revolution. I quite enjoyed Campobello’s writing style, as it was quite descriptive and provided effective […] read full post >>

Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho provides invaluable insight into both the Mexican Revolution and the cruelties of armed conflict in general. The format is quite unique, consisting of three parts broken down into sections based on different personalities the narrator comes across as a girl caught in the crossfire of deadly civil war. The first part recounts short […] read full post >>

This is not my first time reading this piece and I am still in awe the second time around. First, the way Campobello is encapsulating these narratives (assuming they are longer than presented) and summarizing it into somewhere between 1-2 pages is something I haven’t really encountered aside from this work of hers. I guess […] read full post >>

This week I chose to read “The Underdogs” which is a story of the Mexican revolution. For the reading this week, I purchased a hard copy of the book from the bookstore, and this was actually my first time reading a handheld version of something for school in a long time, and it made such […] read full post >>

I found that I enjoyed reading Mariano Azeula’s novel, The Underdogs, much more than I did De la Parra’s novel, Mama Blanca, last week. The difference in pacing between the two texts was like night and day, with this week’s text having very short, condensed chapters. I also personally found the content more engaging and all […] read full post >>