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Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
Abstract
Excerpt: The fairy tale is the antithesis of the realist story. Realism strives for verisimilitude. It seeks out the everyday and the ordinary and portrays “life as it is.” In the last two decades, even the fairytale has been subject to revisioning, with people more interested in finding out what happens after “happily ever after.” The ten short stories that comprise the collection The Heart of Need and Other Stories by Augusto Antonio Aguila are realist stories of the most disenchanted kind. In Aguila’s gritty urban Manila landscape, the most his characters can hope for is getting by and coming to terms with a disillusioned life.
Recommended Citation
Diaz, Charlene B.
(2015)
"Augusto Antonio Aguila. The Heart of Need and Other Stories. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013. 164 pages.,"
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol5/iss2/6
