00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685954869149610622 Buklod 20240219092657.0 a r |||| u| ta 240219s2023 ph r |||| u|eng d 9786214482337 (pb/bp) DMLF rda eng DMLUC PS 9993 B8 C65 2023 Brillantes, Gregorio C. author. Short stories Selections The collected stories of Gregorio C. Brillantes edited by Jonathan Chua. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University Press [2023] ©2023 xlvi, 524 pages 23 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "With introduction by Jonathan Chua and Reine Arcache Melvin"--Cover. Gathered in this book are stories that bear witness to half a century of postwar life in the Philippines: A country doctor reckons with mortality after seeing a dying infant. A young boy fears the end of days on his way home from the movies. Friends throw parties to discuss dictatorships and insurgencies over bottles of whiskey. Meanwhile, a family besieged by rising floodwaters faces a more menacing threat. Gregorio C. Brillantes, often labeled as a “Catholic writer,” went beyond this calling and explored the possibilities of realist fiction, producing stories that Nick Joaquin considered as “Literature with a capital L” and are increasingly aware of their political milieu—the Marcos regime, the social unrest, and the vacillations of the middle class. Pensive and philosophical, at times funny and parodic, his work attests not only to a mastery of the short story but also, in the hands of a genius, to the capaciousness of the form. Edited and with notes by Jonathan Chua, The Collected Stories of Gregorio C. Brillantes reintroduces the author in a time of repeated history.--Back cover. Brillantes, Gregorio C. Literary collections. Short stories, Philippine (English) Philippine fiction (English) Chua, Jonathan editor. FI UPD DMLF PS 9993 B8 C65 2023 Book