Spanish is a language that belongs to the genetic patrimony of the Philippines. It was not only the language of the colony and its institutions, but was used by Rizal's generation and the one after to propose reforms, to seek greater autonomy from the mother country. Spanish was the language through which the Propaganda Movement found its voice to expose the friars? ill practices against the Filipinos. In the pages of La Solidaridad, Lopez Jaena, del Pilar, Rizal, and other Filipino expatriates expressed their love for Mother Spain while depicting their hatred of the clergy and corrupt colonial officials. Articles, written in Spanish, informed the Spanish public and the Spanish government of the cruelty and exploitation suffered by the Filipino people.

Spanish was also the vehicle used to promote Filipino intellectual and artistic brilliance. Spanish was necessary for Jose Rizal to converse and share his ideas with some of the leading liberal Spanish politicians like Pi y Margall. Jose Rizal, using Spanish, wrote Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, two novels that forever changed the course of Philippine history. In the Philippines, priests and learned individuals used Spanish to ask for reforms and combat friar excesses. Leading Filipino priests fervently defended the Filipino side on the controversial issue of parish secularization and discrimination. read more

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Tercera Primavera
RESUMEN: Es el segundo libro de poesía en español, publicado en Bogotá en 1981. Recoge poemas compuestos entre 1966 y 1981. La poesía de Farolán, lejos de ser clásica y tradicional, está enraizada en la pluriculturalidad que constituye su patrimonio personal. En su obra conviven como algo peculiar, no estudiado sino adquirido por experiencia de vida, lo oriental, la tradición hispana, el espíritu el existencialismo; elementos dispares que la voz del poeta trata de amalgamar y que utiliza para cantar la soledad del hombre, y su dimensión existencial. Dentro de esta sensibilidad más proclive al pesimismo, Filipinas más que un lugar concreto, es el lugar del recuerdo, la representación fisica de una relación de intimidad del alma y de una condición de armonía del espíritu, la cuna del origen de la vida. more