I TRANSLATED the late Ambassador Leon Maria Guerrero's prize-winning biography of Jose Rizal, 'The First Filipino,' into Filipino. In an act of verbal gymnastics, I am translating that introduction into English for this column.
I TRANSLATED the late Ambassador Leon Maria Guerrero's prize-winning biography of Jose Rizal , 'The First Filipino,' into Filipino. In an act of verbal gymnastics, I am translating that introduction into English for this column.Like Ambeth Ocampo, I first read 'The First Filipino' when I was a college student at the Ateneo de Manila University. The book delighted me because Guerrero told the life of Rizal as if it were a 19th-century novel.
' This is the way the British wrote immediately after the Second World War: with elegant phrases, a glide to the language and some rather long sentences. Sometimes, in the biography, one whole paragraph occupied a whole page!This was one of the hurdles I faced when doing this translation. More than once, I was tempted to shorten some sentences to make the book more 'readable' for the readers in Filipino in the 21st century.
Translating The Rizal Biography 'The First Filipino'
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