Crónicas de la Revolución mexicana en Blasco Ibáñez y Martín Luis Guzmán: semejanzas discursivas, coincidencias e ideologías

Abstract

From 1919 to 1920 the Spanish writer Blasco Ibáñez was invited to go to Mexico by the President, Venustiano Carranza. As a republican politician, writer, journalist and also founder of the newspaper El Pueblo in 1894, he wrote in first person narrative about the Mexican Revolution and produced a documentary material that caused troubles among the mexican governing authorities. That was the reason of giving up his mexican first project, the novel El Águila y la Serpiente that kept unpublished, and continuing his task about the same subject with a current political essay, El Militarismo Mejicano. The novel´s title was the same one in a different novel, some years later, whose author was a Blasco Ibáñez mexican coetaneous: Martín Luis Guzmán. El Militarismo Mejicano is a compilation of all the articles that Blasco Ibáñez sent to The New York Times newspaper during the mexican conflict that were published since 16th may to 16th juny in 1920. It is reflected, with real direct discourse, the idea he caught about the revolutionary country, really different to his novel’s first appearance, written with more exotic and escapist features, althouhg not free of ideology and personal opinions about the disappointment with Revolution, the same point of view that Martín Luis Guzmán expressed on his following novel. However, these articles had an inexpected and different impact from the unpublished novel as a result, considering that in case of publication it had been nearly unknown, almost unnoticed, among mexicans.