Cartografía de la identidad: Paz y Revueltas

Abstract

This essay describes two 20th Century exceptional writers: Paz and Revueltas. Both writers share ideas and trust in the world of books, art and culture that the Mexican Revolution created. They tried to change the world, but each one of them, at the right time, was changed by history. I see similarities as well as strong differences among those two 20th Century minds. They both believed in the Revolution and above all, in the power of words to change men, but they were hit by fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the soviet socialism turned into dystopia and the Holocaust. Only writing could save them from the tragic era or from failure.

Keywords

• mexican culture
• new man
• revolution
• socialism
• avant-garde