The Eagle and the Serpent (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: MartínLuis Guzmán
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical chronicle
- Time of Work: 1913-1915
- Setting: Mexico and the United States
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Francisco Villa, Venustiano Carranza
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: Values, Power, personal or social, Revolutionaries, Escapes, 1910’s, Oppression, Corruption, Mexico or Mexicans, Soldiers, Battles
- Locales: United States, Mexico
The Mexican Revolution, perhaps the only military movement that radically changed the position of a Latin American country after achieving its independence from Spain, affected the Mexican writers of those days in different ways. Some remained indifferent; others defended its motives and facts; a few engaged themselves actively in its vicissitudes. To no one can be attributed greater and more direct participation than that of Martin Luis Guzman. Executor, witness, chronicler, interpreter, critic, novelist, he embraced all the possible angles of relationship with the Mexican...
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