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8/9/2019 Rereading the Noli, Fili - Manuel Arguilla
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terization of the Governor-General,
down through those of the priests,
the rich Spaniards, the weal thymiddle-class, the superstitious poor,
the students, the tulisanes - his
touch is unerring, his eye seems to
have been all, and his heart to have
understood.
He is an unrivalled story-teller!
Whether it is to arouse you to pity,
to indignation, to laughter, to
terror, or to give you a feeling of
romantic satisfaction- he does it
with a narrative skill that only a
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born teller of tales could
possessed. In the opinion of
writer, the chapters in th~~ NolTangere entitled "The Sacrista
and "the Meeting in the T
Hall" can favorably compare
any two chapters from any o
novel that can be brought forw
The first is a little 111Hst.erpiec
pathos; the other, of irony!
In my youth,r
brought afrom a feading of the 1VolTangere the image of Elias, a tary, enigmatici and, thrilling
sonality. This last reading of
novel has given me not the mem
of one character; it has left with
the consciousness of a body of
ple weaving out of their sepa
and often clashing destinies
fabric of a national character. I
left me both proud and humble.
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