Lucidez y trascendencia de la novela de la revolución mexicana. La obra de José Rubén Romero

The novel of the Mexican Revolution constitutes, as well as the Mexican mural movement, one of the most valuable aesthetic contributions of our country to universal culture. In addition, it not only constitutes a milestone for the history of national and world literature, but it also represents a lofty contribution to the historical knowledge of the period (1910-1940) and a sociological and anthropologic array of great importance for the comprehension of the diverse idiosyncrasies that characterized the Mexican nation during the first half of the 20th century. In fact, the set of works that integrate the NRM offers us a lucid recreation, both testimonial and artistic, of multiple real or fictitious scenes across which its writers project an enlightening light on the social and political structures that were annihilated and emerged in that convulsed time, the ancient and new conflicts, regional and national problematic, the justice ideologies and the personal ambitions, the atavistic mentalities and the behavioral transformations of the masses and the elites, as well as the context of destruction and renovation inherent to the stages of the armed fight and the post revolution. This enormous literary and documentary wealth is the factor that helps to explain why the NRM must be conceived as s suitable frame for any contemporary review of Jose Rubén Romero’s narrative work, a writer whose novels not only reveal a sharp and rebellious spirit, but also represent an accurate critical X-ray photography of the Mexican prevailing society at the dawn of last century.La Novela de la Revolución Mexicana (NRM) constituye, al igual que el Muralismo Mexicano, una de las más valiosas aportaciones estéticas de nuestro país a la cultura universal. Además, ella no sólo conforma un hito para la historia de la literatura nacional y mundial, sino que también representa una excelsa contribución al conocimiento histórico de la época (1910-1940) y un acervo sociológico y antropológico de gran importancia para la comprensión de las diversas idiosincrasias que caracterizaron a la nación mexicana durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Esta enorme riqueza literaria y documental es el factor que explica por qué la NRM debe concebirse como el marco idóneo para cualquier revisión contemporánea de la obra prosística de José Rubén Romero, un escritor cuyas novelas no únicamente revelan un espíritu mordaz y rebelde, sino que asimismo son una certera radiografía crítica de la sociedad mexicana prevaleciente en los albores de la centuria pasada