Villa Magdalena : a novel / by Bienvenido N. Santos

By:

Santos, Bienvenido N [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Quezon City : New Day Publishers, 1986Edition: New Day editionDescription: vii, 288 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9711002418

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

899.210308

Summary: This limited second edition of Villa Magdalena makes this out-of-print novel of Bienvenido N. Santos available to contemporary readers and students of Philippine literature. Published by Erehwon 20 years ago in 1965, Villa Magdalena is Santos' first novel. It was written under a Rockefeller Foundation grant at the University of Iowa writers Workshop where Santos later taught as Fulbright Exchange Professor for six years. The human flesh inmetaphor is a favorite theme of Santos which pervades all his novels. Villa Magdalena is the most sexual of his fiction. It is the story of the wealthy and landed Conde family, beautiful, proud, and doomed; and the Medalladas, leather merchants who rise from poverty to riches and power, plagued by the smell that clings to their product.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Filipiniana Section	Filipiniana	F 899.212 Sa237v 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	99252d

This limited second edition of Villa Magdalena makes this out-of-print novel of Bienvenido N. Santos available to contemporary readers and students of Philippine literature. Published by Erehwon 20 years ago in 1965, Villa Magdalena is Santos' first novel. It was written under a Rockefeller Foundation grant at the University of Iowa writers Workshop where Santos later taught as Fulbright Exchange Professor for six years. The human flesh inmetaphor is a favorite theme of Santos which pervades all his novels. Villa Magdalena is the most sexual of his fiction. It is the story of the wealthy and landed Conde family, beautiful, proud, and doomed; and the Medalladas, leather merchants who rise from poverty to riches and power, plagued by the smell that clings to their product.

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