Memorywork: Gregorio Brillantes remembers his fiction through time, theme & technique

Date of Publication

1996

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Abstract/Summary

This paper has for its subject writer Gregorio Brillantes and two of his major works of fiction, with emphasis on the second, The Apollo Centennial: Nostalgias, Predicaments and Celebrations (1980). It includes a three-hour interview, conducted on two separate occassions, with Brillantes himself. Through the interview, it is expected that Brillantes's own comments on his work with allow further insight into them.

Apart from the interview, a Marxist reading has been made on Brillante's second collection of short stories for a fuller understanding of the work itself and its implications. The Marxist critique is done on a general level for the whole collection itself, and more in-depthly on three representative stories: Help , Janis Joplin, the Revolution, and the Melancholy Widow on Diego Silang Street, and A Taste for the Fine Whiskey of the Bourgeoisie. This critique is incorporated into the essay segment of this paper. Also in the essay are certain details Brillantes himself shared during the interview: his boyhood, the early stages in his writing career, the influences on his work (both past and present), the stories in both collections, his career as an editor and several of his personal observations about the state of Philippine literature.

A brief introduction appears in the first few pages of this study. It supplies background on Gregorio Brillantes and his works. Also here is a reconstruction of the interview with Gregorio Brillantes (for reasons of his own, he is not comfortable with having his voice recorded on tape).

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU07513

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

85 numb. leaves

Keywords

Brillantes; Gregorio; in fiction; drama; poetry; etc; Philippine fiction; Fiction--Technique; Fiction writing; Authors; Filipino

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