14 Facts About Mariano Azuela

Mariano Azuela Gonzalez was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

Mariano Azuela wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism.

Mariano Azuela is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution, " and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest.

Mariano Azuela wrote of the social life of Mexicans during the Diaz dictatorship.

Mariano Azuela continued to write short works and novels influenced by the Revolution.

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Mariano Azuela grew up in a small farm owned by his father, which later influences the settings in many of his fictional works.

Mariano Azuela was first admitted to a Catholic seminary at the age of fourteen, but soon abandoned his religious studies.

Mariano Azuela received his M D in 1899, practicing medicine first in his home town of Lagos de Moreno, and later, after the Mexican revolution, practiced in Mexico City.

When Porfirio Diaz was overthrown, Azuela was made Chief of Political Affairs of Lagos de Moreno in 1911 and state Director of Education of Jalisco in 1914 by president Francisco I Madero.

Mariano Azuela traveled with the military forces of Julian Medina, a follower of Pancho Villa, where he served as a field doctor.

Mariano Azuela later was forced for a time to emigrate to El Paso, Texas when the counterrevolutionary forces of Victoriano Huerta were temporarily triumphant.

Mariano Azuela fought for a better Mexico, and he believed the Revolution corrected some injustices, but it has given rise to others equally deplorable.

Mariano Azuela's argues he gains authority over the land, and constructs a cultural identity where he and Mexican peasants must establish in order to resist the Spanish conquerors.

Mariano Azuela emphasizes Demetrio's heritage so that readers understand what is at stake if cultural identity is lost.