Author(s): Mariano Azuela

Spanish

Text in Spanish. Written in 1915 and first published in a small El Paso paper, "Los de Abajo" has gained universal recognition as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution. It is one of the first novels in which political revolution as the means of freedom and self-determination was addressed as a serious matter. 'The Underdog' is the story of a courageous Indian farmer who almost unwittingly rises to a generalship in Pancho Villa's rebel army.