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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0957-9656
- eISSN
- 1878-4712
- DOI
- 10.2959/logo.1994.5.3.159
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
LOGOS And another thing... The author and the library: A voice from the Philippines F Sionil Jose W h o is t h e writer who is not humbled whenevei he goes to a libraiy and sees all those books that have contiibuted to mankind's vast fund of knowledge? Every time I start a new book, 1 always feel daunted by t h e effoit, by t h e possibility t h a t 1 may not be read at all a n d my woik may simply be buiied in some libiaiy index, fot indeed, libtaiies can veiy well be t h e cemeteiies of man's knowledge if they ate not used. T h e veiy act of typing a manusciipt 600 pages long, foui o i five times, is a backbieaking chore. If it is an histoiical novel, one must include t h e many b o u t s spent in libiaiies, amassing those bits of infoimation, the minutiae without which lit• erature would have no veiisimilitude, that sense of reality tha t would convey to a leadei that a book is not just fiction, but fact as well. Literature, how• evei, is always relevant,
Journal
Logos – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994