The Eagle and the Serpent | The Eagle and the Serpent

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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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