Solidaridad Publishing House releases three of F. Sionil Jose’s latest books completed before the National Artist’s death on Jan. 6 this year. BeFullyInformed PhilippinePanorama
Solidaridad Publishing House releases three of F. Sionil Jose’s latest books completed before the National Artist’s death on Jan. 6 this year. A necrological tribute by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts will be held on May 18, 5 p.m., at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The three books will be available on May 19 at Solidaridad Bookshop at 531 Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila.
Compared with his provocative and passionate socio-political commentaries, Sionil Jose’s views on literature are more circumspect and pragmatic, but no less thought-provoking. Reading these selections will enable us to savor the universality, substance, and soundness of his thoughts.A recollection of F. Sionil Jose’s awakening and the development of his personal and social consciousness and moral conviction,, is collection of personal essays.
Sionil Jose’s fiction is a narration of his memories of his beginnings and what he envisions as society’s ills and the suffering of the Filipino people. Having lived his life for three years short of a century, Sionil Jose saw it all—injustice and inequality, war and oppression, beauty and extravagance. His personal experiences and love for literature provided the themes for his works and shaped his perspective on society and life in general. While admitting to being an “old hack” and physically weak, Sionil Jose remained steadfast in his resolve to write about the truth in society, just as he advised fellow writers to be.
The short stories in this valuable collection are rooted in the writer’s memories and his social consciousness about justice and truth. The stories are narrated with honesty, even humor, and in a literary style uniquely his own. As Lito Zulueta writes in his introduction to the: “His fiction always rings true with its social vision; there is not a false note in it. F. Sionil Jose is simply our supreme fictionist.
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