Less well-known than the rest of Revueltas's fiction, In Some Valley of Tears is an atypical short text, written during the reflective period following the dogmatic vilification provoked by The Days of the Earth. In this short novel, the writing doesn't overwhelm itself; it seeks a certain classicism. However, this portrait of a man who identifies private property with life itself and goodness has, in its strongest passages, the same contiguity with the monstrous, the different, and the unassimilable that Revueltas's best texts offer.