The Mexican novel before Mariano Azuela --
Mariano Azuela: a break with the past --
The novel of the Mexican Revolution --
B. Traven, mystery man --
Agustin Yanez: a quantum jump for the Mexican novel --
Juan Rulfo, novelist of the dead --
Luis Spota, self-made novelist --
Carlos Fuentes, "the very model of a modern major novelist" --
Vicente Lenero -a Mexican Graham Greene? --
Sergio Galindo, novelist of human relations --
The novel and the novelist in Mexico today.