Books : Don Vicente: Two Novels (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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by: F. Sionil Jose
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780375752438
ISBN: 0375752439
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: August 17, 1999
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Sales Rank: 626431
Studio: Modern Library
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Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dusk, traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans to, ultimately, the Marcos dictatorship.
The first novel here, Tree, is told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer. It is the story of one young man's search for parental love and for his place in a society with rigid class structures. The tree of the title is a symbol of the hopes and dreams--too often dashed--of the Filipino people.
The second novel, My Brother, My Executioner, follows the misfortunes of two brothers, one the editor of a radical magazine who is tempted by the luxury of the city, the other an activist who is prepared to confront all of his enemies, real or imagined. The critic I. R. Cruz called it 'a masterly symphony' of injustice, women, sex, and suicide.
Together in Don Vicente, they form the second volume of the five-novel Rosales Saga, an epic the Chicago Tribune has called 'a masterpiece.'
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Rating: - Part 2 and 3 of the Rosales Saga
Two books in one. The first story of a boy growing up in a small town as the son of the controller for the local landowner. Through a series of encounters, the reader follows the growing distance of the boy from his father, whom he first loves, then respects and then hates. The second story is about Luis, the illegtimate son of Don Vicente, the rich landowner, and his half-brother Victor, who becomes a rebel commander. After being educated in Manila, Luis becomes a journalist with liberal to leftist ... Read More
Rating: - A Dramatized Ideological Debate
I have always regarded F. Sionil Jose as one of the best Filipino authors. Don Vicente, as most of of Jose's books, is sharp-eyed in its observation of the class struggle still prevalent in Philippine society. While the novel is set in the 1950s, the ideological conflict between half-brothers Luis and Victor, presented in the second part of the novel, is still very much real today. Luis' struggle portrays how material comfort can make man turn his back on his personal ideals.
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