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Fausto J. Galauran: The Making of a Popular Novelist

Soledad S. Reyes

Discipline: Cultural Studies

 

Abstract:

With a career as a Tagalog novelist spanning almost 50 years (1922· 1971), Fausto J. Galauran occupies a central position in any attempt to understand both the development of the Tagalog novel and its relationship with society and history. Publishing his first novel in 1922, Galauran embarked on a writing career that would see him through the following decades with their consequent changes in taste and preference. That several generations of readers have patronized his novels is sufficient proof that Galauran instinctively understood what his audience wanted and expected from him as a novelist.