They are panoramic, richly-textured reflections on Mexican history, its underlying contradictions of world view between Indian and Spaniard and their sometimes awkward melding in mestizaje and in the country's revolution of 1910-17.

它们是墨西哥丰富历史的完整写照，印度人和西班牙人之间世界观的根本矛盾，麦士蒂索人和这个国家在1910-17改革的一段尴尬融合。