La narrativa de Mariano Azuela, 1895-1918

Abstract

The literary works that Mariano Azuela wrote between 1895 and 1918 reflect a critical vision. In his first works, beside the realm of costumbrist stories, works of naturalist cut or modernist influence appear. The doctor from the laguense area was an author continuously in search of literary expression, which solidified into a form of realism. His principal texts give an account of human beings and their circumstances, occasionally from a poetical perspective. The symbolic traits and fragmentary nature of some of his works demonstrate an author sensitive to the new currents in literature. In the narrative of Azuela, which combines the real and the imaginary, emerges above all a vision of disenchantment and denunciation.