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The story does not mention or depict the Marcos administration. It is set in a remote tribal village in the mountains and focuses on the conflict between traditional tribal beliefs and the introduction of new, modern ideas by an educated young man from the tribe.
His prize-winning works include: Philippine Poetics: The Past Eight Years (essay), 1981; Crossworks (collected poems), 1979; Charts (collected poems), 1973; The Archipelago (epic poem), 1970; Telex Moon (epic poem), 1975; The Cave and Other Poems (collected poems), 1968; and the short stories Ritual and The Man Who Made a Covenant ...
The Ritual By Cirilo F. Bautista In the mountains they call it Going Beyond. The way they pronounce The Words endows the sound with a hushed finality as though the meaning had nothing to do with the syllables, the lips just bit parted, afraid to release the Words altogether.
Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941-May 6, 2018), Philippine National Artist for Literature. A Renaissance man, he was a poet, fiction writer, painter, literary critic, and educator. He was Professor Emeritus and University Fellow at the De La Salle University, Manila.
F. Bautista, particularly “Ritual,” arguably his most popular and widely anthologized piece of short !ction, his treatment of reality as a product of consensus through communication, has not been su"ciently explored.
Aug 6, 2017 · Title: The Ritual by Cirilo F. Bautista. Theme: To bring about Change. Characters: Narrator – A from the city, worked as a teacher for Literature and Language in the mountains, and, according to his brother, is a coward. Dayleg – The narrator’s co-worker/friend.
Jun 13, 2018 · NATIONAL Artist for Literature Cirilo Bautista, who passed away May 6 after a lingering illness, was acclaimed for reinventing epic poetry and the modern retelling in verse of Philippine history, but if there was epic heroism in his life, it was unassuming and humble.
