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    212 Reail B. Majares: A musical masterpiece, Barenboim says, is a conception ofthe Intat] cannot be decribed — beeause were it possible to describe oe nen eae ies ey RialsmorscrptofMalamisa 1880, Jose Rial, then a nineteen-yeat-old student, won first prize ina ary contest in Mania His winning pecan allegorical essay entitled Gontjo de os Dioses, narrates a coundl of the gods in ME Olympus to mine who, among Homer, Vie and Cervantes ithe beter witerin ofart and virtue Cervantes judged the winner forthe premium he reson socal reform and the rule of eason. Speaking through Minerva, fai prises Don Quine as “the magic hand that strongly guldes human gna? the whip which punishes and corrects without bloodshed" With ante, Rizal say “Trt came bak to occupy its place, announcing & eta tothe wodld, chen corrupted” Ris ayoung suaden'sesay earner ite dapay of Buropean easing x even colony “petriotc” nthe preeminence assigned to a Spanish ter Ye, tis sljy subversive as well One imagines Rizal saying thatthe pps itself needed a Cervantes, when he praised the Spaniard for hn he dd ina society ruled by “the obscurity of intelligence” AMfected by a kind of madness, made more dismal and feantc vsnenseupid authors ith feverish imaginations write about tsbad ‘Gee wat propagated everywhere and time was uselesly spent in petniioas reading. ‘To attribute to Rizal this intention ie not just a case of hindsight (he would become is country’s Cervantes), But a mater of the moment 26, The year 1880, when Rizal wrote the esay, was also the year the Propaganda Movement was born. A movement that emerged with the verents of LB72" (he Cavite mautlny and execution of the priests Jose Durgos, Mariano Gomez, and Jacinto Zama), the movement waned it the face of epression but waxed again after 1880 when, nder Marcelo del "Ue Propaganda was launched. i pierces ose Rizal and the Invention of a Mational Literature 1 deep “native tradition” and a wealth of local linguistic and cultural ures, Asserting difference was a dominant theme ofthe Propaganda Tiupired the effort of Rizal and colleague, ike Pedro Paterno, TH. lo de Tavera and leabelo de los Reyes, in embedding the Philippines hight and “ancient” Malay vistin: in studying and extoling the tues of al languages; andin harnessing the popular” and the"Tolk” as ores forthe creation of an integral culture "Though schooled in the Buropean manner, Rizal hada studious interest local cultural productions, as shown in his references to flldore, the jan kamedya, and Prancico Balagas Hs falarty with vernacular ature was evident in 1887, when he delivered in German a lectre on log mnetrieal art before the Ethnographic Society of Bern, and in 1890 Tn he defended the integrity of Tagalog Uhateraguinst the attacks of Spanish academician Vicente Barrantes.* nal was the ist to attempt to write a “national” history that would Juengage the county from being treated as a mere appendage to Spain. ugh what he prodsced, lacking the time, wat a “shadow-history” in orm of aerial annotation of Antonio de MorgasSucsos de as las Pilipinas (2890), stil it stands a the frst attempt by a Flipino to rehearse fs nationa history ofthe Philipines. Rival recognized the importance of local languages as a caltura source. Even in bis latt yeas, he had plans to stody Bisayan, Sabanon, fed Mangyan, publish a Tagalog grammar, and produce a “universal” Aicconary of Philippine languages He also considered writing a treatise on tive aesthetic, In his reply to Barrantos in 1890, he sad: alas we ow, wo no mouthed by he . — owe the propaga movement alr clot forma, qual ght ad oe cana 'Spnh rasing» Span dantcer nse meal dame Party wth Sendo aa tn edi ar nf Ie ph acs the fact hat the wining eey mes ont a

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