Why Jose Rizal wrote the The Fable of The Monkey and the Turtle?
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Why Jose Rizal wrote the The Fable of The Monkey and the Turtle?
Why Jose Rizal wrote the The Fable of The Monkey and the Turtle?
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A podcast series of Filipino folk tales for young people brought to us by Areté and the Ateneo de Manila Basic Education.
Listen to the story here or on Spotify.
Today’s podcast episode: “The Monkey and the Turtle,” as told by our national hero, Dr José P. Rizal.
Background
In 1885, José Rizal lived in Paris where he often dined at the house of the Pardo de Taveras. There he met the young lady Paz, who was being courted by his best friend and roommate, Juan Luna. It was customary then for young European women to have a notebook or album and have their friends write on it. Because Paz’s notebook was about to be filled up, it is said that Rizal used up all the remaining pages by illustrating and narrating the fable of “The Monkey and The Turtle.”
This story is widely recognized as surely having originated from the Philippines. Scholars point to a Bagobo version of the story that was around during pre-Hispanic times and that this Bagobo folk tale is the source of the Ilocano, Kapampangan, Visayan, Tagalog, and Tinguian versions of the story.
Rizal’s version of The Monkey and the Turtle is widely recognized as one of the first, if not the first, comic book that a Filipino ever wrote. The English version that you will hear was translated from Rizal’s original Spanish text by Paolo Ven B. Paculan and Kristine Anne P. Valdellon, and will be read for us by Hazelyne Elgar.
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