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Martín Luis Guzmán Franco (October 6, – December 22, ) was a Mexican novelist and journalist..
Guzmán, Martín Luís (1887–1976)
Martín Luís Guzmán (b. 6 October 1887; d. 22 December 1976), Mexican literary figure and cultural entrepreneur best remembered for his post-Revolutionary novels El áquila y la serpiente (1928) and La sombra del caudillo (1929).
Based on personal experience, these works provide some of the best insights into the Revolution as well as a condemnation of the leading post-Revolutionary figures of the 1920s. Although he was part of the El Ateneo literary group in 1911, Guzmán largely abandoned his literary career in the 1930s, instead pursuing journalism and publishing.
The son of an army officer who died in combat during the Revolution, Guzmán joined the Constitutionalists.
Among them was a twenty-four-year-old bureaucrat who had left his university studies to join the revolution.
After founding many newspapers, he spent five years (1915–1920) of self-imposed exile in Spain and the United States. When his daily, El Mundo, was confiscated by the Obregón administration, he again exiled himself to Spain (ca.
1923–1936), where he directed several newspap