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La Oveja de Nathán

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La Oveja de Nathán	comment	La Oveja de Nathán, in English "Nathan's Sheep", is a Spanish-language Filipino novel by Hispanophone author Antonio M. Abad. Written in The Roaring '20s, when the Philippines had emerged from 300+ years of Spanish colonial rule but was now under U.S. colonial rule, it was written from 1925–26, published in 1928, and won the Premio Zobel, a Philippine-wide competition for Hispanophone literature, in 1929. In 2013, a bilingual Spanish/English edition was released, translated by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes.It is epic in length and scope, and centres largely around the life and adventures of young Mariano Bontulan, serving as a typesetter in the Philippine government printing office, under the direction of his elite boss, Don Benito Claudio de Hernán González, who though a principal negotiator with the new American imperialists and cofounder of an early assimilationist political party under the U.S. regime, holds a deep suspicion for the new colonisers, and imparts his thinking to Bontulan over the course of the latter's employment. Meanwhile, Bontulan, hearing of the news of The Great War, decides to sign up for the American side.It is considered, by the few scholars who have read and studied it to date, to be possibly the greatest work of Filipino Hispanophone fiction, and has been compared to no less than War and Peace (hopefully not just because of its massive length and epic scope).
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Don Benito Claudio de Hernán González, Mariano Bontulan's boss, is explicitly based on Real Life old ilustrados (intellectuals) like Pedro Paterno and T. H. Pardo de Tavera, who both survived well into the era of U.S. colonialism, and so had to negotiate with and live under the new American regime.note The cover art shows a Don Benito physically resembling the real Pardo de Tavera, with glasses and an aristocratic white hair, moustache and goatee. Bontulan himself is based in part on the Real Life Tomas Claudio, one of the few Filipino soldiers to fight (though he died, Bontulan didn't) in The Great War.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Don Benito dispenses a lot of sage and sometimes prophetic advice to Mariano Bontulan. (He even looks like a stereotypical wise man with his white beard, glasses and old-school gentlemanly looks.)
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Specifically, in 2 Samuel 12, Nathan tells the parable of a sheep, cared for by his shepherd but coveted by a rich man. In this case, the sheep is likened to the Filipino nation/people, the shepherd to the Spanish colonisers, and the rich man to the American imperialists.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Not directly, but the title refers to the biblical Prophet Nathan, who was not afraid to speak truth to King David. As the Good Book Says...: Specifically, in 2 Samuel 12, Nathan tells the parable of a sheep, cared for by his shepherd but coveted by a rich man. In this case, the sheep is likened to the Filipino nation/people, the shepherd to the Spanish colonisers, and the rich man to the American imperialists.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Naturally, with the Americans now in charge and disseminating their language in mass public schooling. Specifically, the American teacher and entrepreneur Edwin Moore and his family are a natural source of this.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_318d4432	comment	Tropical Island Adventure: It's the Philippines, so.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_330826ca	comment	Latin Land: The fact that the original novel was literally written in Spanish is a good hint that the Philippines presents as this, especially since 300+ years of Spanish colonialism itself had just ended barely a generation prior to its writing.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_369c0d71	type	Voluntary Vassal
La Oveja de Nathán / int_369c0d71	comment	Voluntary Vassal: The stance of elite negotiators like Don Benito, who as founders of the Federalista Party, originally sought annexation as the latest state of the Union, or at least as an explicitly benevolent protectorate.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The bilingual edition is 632 pages long, so the original, at roughly half that, is still around 316 pages.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_663ffef6	comment	Majored in Western Hypocrisy: Don Benito, sort of; as an old ilustrado (elite intellectual), he may have grown up in a Philippine setting but studied abroad for much of his youth, generally in Europe, particularly in cities like Paris. Played with since he has considerable Spanish blood as a descendant of actual Spanish conquistadores in the 16th and 17th centuriesnote Truth in Television for his Real Life inspiration T. H. Pardo de Tavera, who was ethnically a Criollo, and so he was already Western to begin with, at the very least in the genetic sense.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Don Benito sees largely a Type 2. Mariano Bontulan, young and largely growing up post-Philippine-American War, is more trusting of the Americans and sees principally a Type 1.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
La Oveja de Nathán / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: Shows much of Mariano Bontulan's everyday life and work at the imperial Government Printing Office, outside of his wartime adventures.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_85832a47	comment	Gay Paree: Both Mariano Bontulan and Don Benito spend significant time in fin-de-siècle Paris, the latter to study, the former to celebrate the Allied victory in the Great War.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_954ad71c	comment	Evil Colonialist: Played with, since Spain—the uncontested Big Bad in most other Filipino historic and literary portrayals, whether helped by U.S. colonialism or heirs to the 1896 Revolution—is here largely painted as the benevolent, nurturing outside power, especially compared with the (then-current) American colonisers.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_9b1e50bd	comment	During the War: Mariano Bontulan goes off to fight in The Great War, on the American side. (Initially he shows a lot of admiration for the Germans though.)
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: One of the specific Catholic sects explored here is the veneration of Nuestra Señora de la Regla (Our Lady of Rule) in Opon town (today Lapu-lapu City), Cebu.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: Much of the novel's main plot occurs in the last couple decades prior to its writing and publication; The Great War was less than a decade prior at the time, for one.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: No Celebrities Were Harmed: Don Benito Claudio de Hernán González, Mariano Bontulan's boss, is explicitly based on Real Life old ilustrados (intellectuals) like Pedro Paterno and T. H. Pardo de Tavera, who both survived well into the era of U.S. colonialism, and so had to negotiate with and live under the new American regime.note The cover art shows a Don Benito physically resembling the real Pardo de Tavera, with glasses and an aristocratic white hair, moustache and goatee. Bontulan himself is based in part on the Real Life Tomas Claudio, one of the few Filipino soldiers to fight (though he died, Bontulan didn't) in The Great War.
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La Oveja de Nathán / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The novel is densely packed with references to Philippine and world history and then-current events, such as The Great War, and the convoluted politicking between the Filipino elite and American imperialists. Lots of Real Life names and places are thrown around quite liberally.
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