Abstract

AVECHUCO CABRERA, Daniel. Demetrio Macías in a village of La Mancha: The Spanish illustrated editions of Los de abajo, by Mariano Azuela. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2023, n.26, pp.111-147.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i26.419.

This work explores the two Spanish illustrated editions of Los de abajo (1915), by Mexican novelist Mariano Azuela: the first one published in 1927 by Ediciones Biblos, with illustrations by Manchego painter Gabriel García Maroto, and the second published in 1930 by Espasa-Calpe, with illustrations by Valencian painter Manuel Benet. In these editions, the convergences and divergences between word and image suggest a complex dialogue in which both the individual perspective of the artists as well as the respective cultural horizons of two countries intervene that at that time shared certain political, social, and ontological concerns. In both illustrated editions, there is a transatlantic inter-artistic dialogue mediated by the image of a Mexican Revolution more utopian than real, more yearned for than existing, and conditioned by a Spain in transition already hearing the rumor of civil war. The analysis of the illustrations is based on two main concepts: iconic encyclopedias, proposed by Diego Lizarazo, and the illustrator as critic, proposed by Lorraine Janzen.

Keywords : illustration; interartisticity; Mexican revolution; Spanish painting; Mexican novel.

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