Revueltas, José

Revueltas, José

▪ Mexican writer
born November 20, 1914, Durango, Mexico
died April 14, 1976, Mexico City

      Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and political activist who was one of the originators of the new Mexican novel.

      Revueltas was a member of a family of prominent artists. His brother Silvestre Revueltas (Revueltas, Silvestre) was a noted composer. Politically active at age 14, Revueltas joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1932 and was twice imprisoned at the penitentiary at Islas Marías. Los muros de agua (1941; “Walls of Water”), his first novel, is based on incidents that occurred during his confinement.

      El luto humano (1943; Human Mourning, also translated as The Stone Knife) is a powerful novel that uses flashbacks and interior monologues to present the plight of rural Mexicans from the pre-Columbian period up to the 1930s. In 1943 Revueltas was expelled from the Communist Party and took part in founding the Spartacus Leninist League, although he soon left that as well. The novel Los errores (1964) is a denunciation of the party's purges. He was arrested for his role in the student disturbances of 1968 and was briefly imprisoned at the penitentiary at Lecumberri.

      Revueltas also published two short-story collections, Dios en la tierra (1944; “God on Earth”) and Dormir en tierra (1960; “To Sleep on the Ground”).

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