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Filipiniana.net is embarking on yet another ambitious project: the online publication of Sangdaang (100) Nobelang Tagalog. The objective is to preserve and promote this literary art form, which began in the early 1900s and lasted until the 1990s, when reader interest waned in the genre and was pre-empted by the advent of text messaging, internet, video games, manga and anime komiks, and cheap romance novels. This project offers to the public rare and out-of-print Tagalog novels that deserve to be read and appreciated by new generations of Filipino readers. These novels have been acquired by Filipiniana.net and are currently being processed for online publication. Each novel comes in a full-text version accompanied with an executive summary and annotations by award-winning essayist and literary critic Soledad S. Reyes and its translation by Roberto T. Añonuevo, brilliant poet and author of award-winning anthologies. It also features other Filipiniana.net editorial interventions, including keywords, subject headings and clarificatory hyperlinks... read more |
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Ang mga Anak Dalita A novel written in poetic form, Mga Anak-Dalita treads familiar ground--how the poor become poorer as they are exploited by greedy capitalists. The narrative begins with a description of the chronic hunger that Ata and her daughter, Teta, suffer from. Pedro, Teta's sweetheart, comes to visit them, and this becomes the occasion for a discussion of the issues labor has leveled against capital, fleshed out in the character of the factory owner who employs Teta... more
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Busabos ng Palad Masasabing nabahiran ito ng Camille ni Alexander Dumas sa paggamit ng motif na masamang babae na may ginintuang puso. Isa ang Busabos ng Palad sa maraming nobelang Tagalog na kumiling sa masamang babae. Gayunman, ito marahil ang pinakamabigat na sakdal sa mga institusyong sinisiraan ang gayong uri ng babae. Umiinog ang istorya kay Celso, ang manunulat na nagligtas sa isang babaeng nagtatrabaho sa bahay-aliwan upang mabayaran ang pagkakautang. Si Rita, ang masamang babae, ang kaniya palang kasintahan na lihim na naglaho dalawang taon na ang nakararaan. Ang kaniyang buhay ay hitik sa pagtataksil, pandarahas na sekswal, at paninira ng ipokritong lipunan... more
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Mga Anak-Bukid Umiinog ang istorya kina Juli at Tonyo na karaniwang magsasaka. Nakatakdang magpakasal ang dalawa. Ngunit bago sumapit ang takdang araw ng kasal, ginahasa si Juli ni George, na isang Filipinong ipinadala ng Amerikanong gobyerno upang mag-aral sa Estados Unidos. Tumanyag si George sa maaanghang na puna laban sa katutubong gawi at halagahan sa kaniyang pitak sa pahayagan. Ginawa niyang kakatwa at nilibak ang popular na ritwal at kaugalian. Nang mabatid ni Tonyo ang sinapit ni Juli, iginiit pa rin niyang pakasalan ito. Tumanggi si Juli at sinabing wala na siyang puri na maipagmamalaki pa... more |
Click here for the complete list of the top 100 Tagalog novels.
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