My Top 101 Books (not necessarily in order)
1. “My Antonia” by Willa Cather 2. “Noli Me Tangere” by José Rizal 3. “El Filibusterismo” by José Rizal 4. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by
1. “My Antonia” by Willa Cather 2. “Noli Me Tangere” by José Rizal 3. “El Filibusterismo” by José Rizal 4. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
The most recent novel of National Artist F. Sionil José, strangely titled “The Feet of Juan Bacnang,” is, like most of his oeuvre based on his thoughts, reflections, advocacies—if one may use that abused word—on the state of the Philippines circa late 20th century. Also on his background and experiences, the experiences of others, readings, news reports, common knowledge and the like.
The Rosales saga is a five-novel opus by National Artist for Literature F. Sionil José that begins with the suicide of the patriarch Tony Samson in “The Pretenders” and ends with the killing of his illegitimate son, Pepe Samson, in the play “Balikbayan.”
The Varsitarian, the 85-year-old official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, will be holding Inkblots 2013: Beat the Deadline, on Oct. 21-23 at the school’s Education Auditorium, St. Albertus Magnus (College of Education-Conservatory of Music) Bldg., España, Manila.
Paul Fleischman’s “Mind’s Eye” was one of the critically acclaimed plays presented during last December’s International Theater Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Even the normally acerbic F. Sionil José, National Artist for Literature, hailed it as “the triumph of the creative imagination over a grim reality.”
The social philosophy of National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil José, who has received the Ramon Magsayay Memorial Award for Literature, Journalism, and Creative Communication and the Chilean government’s Pablo Neruda Centennial Award, can be gleaned from his latest novel, “The Feet of Juan Bacnang” (2011, Solidaridad Publishing House; available at Solidaridad Bookstore, tel. 2541068; and National Book Store).
First, a confession: “I didn’t set out with lofty ideas when this all began,” says producer Hendri Go, who started a longstanding foray into theater down south—that is, Cebu, Dumaguete, Bacolod, Iloilo, Ormoc and other places in the Visayas—with Little Boy Productions in 2001. “I just wanted to have fun.”
From time to time, National Artist Francisco Sionil Jose poses questions like, “What is wrong with us?” or “Why we are so shallow?” And one day I got bristling mad and told him, “Speak for yourself, Frankie!”
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