CRITICISM

Blom, Frans. “Mexico in Arms.” Saturday Review of Literature 6, no. 10 (28 September 1929): 179.

Reviews The Underdogs as one of the most outstanding and compelling works of modern literature.

Brown, Donald F. “Review of Las tribulaciones de una familia decente.” Modern Language Journal 52, no. 6 (1968): 378.

Lauds a 1966 edition of Azuela's novel about an upper-class Mexican family as one of the author's best works, and one that provides background on the complicated history of the Mexican revolution.

Daydí, Santiago. “Drinking: A Narrative Structural Pattern in Mariano Azuela's Los de Abajo.” Kentucky Romance Quarterly 27, no. 1 (1980): 57-67.

Links the three parts of Los de Abajo to the three developmental stages of both the story and the characters, specifically focusing on the use of drinking and eating imagery as it supports these transitions.

Dulsey, Bernard M. “Azuela Revisited.” Hispania 35, no. 3 (August 1952): 331-32.

Lists factual errors about Azuela's life as reported in various reference works on the author, with the intention of clarifying information on him.

Gruening, Ernest. “Peons and Politicos.” Nation 129, no. 3361 (1929): 689-90.

Lauds Azuela for his unbiased portrayal of the events surrounding the Mexican revolution.

Hilton, Ronald. “Two Novels of the Mexican Revolution: The Trials of a Respectable Family and The Underdogs.” Hispanic American Report 17, no. 8 (October 1964): 768.

Very brief overview of a 1963 translation of Azuela's novels.

Levy, Kurt L. “La Luciérnaga: Title, Leitmotif, and Structural Unity.” Philological Quarterly 51, no. 1 (January 1972): 321-28.

Levy proposes that Azuela's La Luciérnaga is a novel that closely probes the individual conscience, and that Azuela uses this goal to provide narrative unity and structure to an otherwise fragmented novel in terms of character and plot.

Robe, Stanley L. “Los de Abajo in El Paso, Texas.” In Azuela and the Mexican Underdogs, pp. 73-119. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Detailed account of the publication history of Los de Abajo, including a comparison of its translations, the original text, and the general significance of the work.

Additional coverage of Azuela's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 131; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 81; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural Authors; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Hispanic Literature Criticism, Ed. 1; Hispanic Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Latin American Writers; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1, 2; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 3.