CAHSS Faculty Articles
Self-Annihilation in the Fiction of D. Paulo Dizon
Publication Title
Philippine Studies
ISSN
0031-7837
Publication Date
Summer 1990
Abstract
Excerpt
D. Paulo Dizon "never won a literary prize in his life."1 This is almost certainly because of the widespread assumption that his work is lightweight because of his reputation as a humorist. It also explains Alejandro Roces's peculiar "Introduction" to Dizon's Twilight of a Poet and Other Stories.2 After noting that Dizon is ranked as 'one of the finest Filipino writers of humorous stories', Roces's "Introduction" wanders off into a series of anecdotes about Dizon's life, illustrating his point that "Dizon was a colorful man" (p. vii). Celso Al Carunungan, also, has produced an elegy, not a preface, with hyperbole such as "Dominador Paulo Dizon, one of the most glittering names in Philippine literature" (p. xiii) and "He has written some of the most compellingly beautiful stories ever written by a Filipino in English" (p. xv). Like Roces, Carunungan's point is basically that "Paul was a humorist" (p. xiii).
Volume
38
Issue
3
NSUWorks Citation
Grow, L. M. (1990). Self-Annihilation in the Fiction of D. Paulo Dizon. Philippine Studies, 38 (3) Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/120
