Fausta Cortes

Biography

Very little is recorded about Fausta Cortes. No encyclopaedia article could be found under this name in English, Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Danish or Hungarian, and the catalogue record for the book gives no birthplace, dates or other works. What follows is therefore drawn from the catalogue record of the book, and it makes no claims about the author's life beyond what the work shows.

The book on this site is Agawan ng Dangal, a novel in Tagalog that the catalogue dates to 1914. Its title can be rendered as something like a struggle over honour. The story runs to about twenty thousand words in ten short chapters. It opens on a dark January night in Paco, a district of Manila, where a band of young men serenades a young woman called Dolores. A singer and his sly friend soon become rivals for her, and the courtship turns into a contest over her good name and the honour of everyone around her.

The catalogue record also notes that the 1914 edition was printed with an open letter from a critic addressed to the author, which suggests the novel was read and argued over when it appeared. It is a useful example of Tagalog fiction from the 1910s that deals with courtship, gossip and reputation in a city setting. Readers who want to check the publication details should look for the book in a library catalogue, since no biography of the author has been found.

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Books

1. Agawan ng Dangal

   by Fausta Cortes

   On a gloomy January night in the Manila district of Paco, a band of young men serenades the beautiful Dolores, and among them the singer Artemyo and his sly friend Beteng begin a rivalry for her. Over ten short chapters the courtship turns into a contest over a woman's good name…

   Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.