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By Edgar G. Dionela
Published by New Day Publishers, ©2000.
Businessman Ed Dionela established a reputation as an eagle-eyed artist who captured human foibles, human contradictions, and the humor of events and situations in his SIMO character.
His previous opus was done on the run, so to speak. In-between business concerns, he contemplated what his eyes had recorded, and his ears had heard and put them down into one of the most interesting characters and works ever to have hit the local scene.
Definitely, when we enter Dionela’s world, we discover that life is beautiful, people are interesting and delightful. We can discover our own reality in some of the events captured by his pen.
Dionela’s works have demolished two myths: 1) that we cannot expect intellectual and artistic genius to flower in a mercantile society, and 2) that an artist can thrive only in Metro Manila’s intellectual milieu.
If only for these two lessons, Dionela’s latest opus stands out as a revelation to the country’s literati and young intelligentsia. Beneath the seemingly busy provincial businessman is a brain that records and chortles at many events and incidents that we simply gloss over as banal and routine. Life’s beauty is certainly in the eyes of the beholder. Dionela’s work enables us to see life through his own eyes. And enjoy it and the people around us.
Description: 100 pages ; 19 x 14.5 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 971-10-1047-X
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