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Miguel Syjuco. Miguel is the narrator and protagonist of Ilustrado. He is a Filipino-Canadian writer who lives in New York at the beginning of the novel, and goes to Manila in search of the missing manuscript of Crispin Salvador, his mentor.
Ilustrado is a 2008 experimental novel by Filipino author Miguel Syjuco. Its protagonist—also a Filipino author named Miguel Syjuco—is investigating the suspicious death of his mentor, Crispin Salvador, whose final, unpublished work was an exposé of rampant political corruption in the Philippines.
Main Characters. Themes and Insights. Reader's Takeaway. Conclusion. Introduction. "Ilustrado" is a novel by Miguel Syjuco that delves into the complexities of Philippine society, history, and politics.
Jan 1, 2008 · The same may be used to describe the two main characters of Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado (with a few touch of modernity, of course). Both were born from opulent political families and foreign-educated.
Apr 30, 2018 · In Ilustrado, the lead character – also called Miguel Syjuco – is on the track of Edmund Salvador. This (fictitious) man was one of the most famous Filipino writers, and has recently been found dead in a river.
Jun 11, 2010 · After the Spanish departed, the Americans left their mark. “We will become American,” says Cristo, one of the characters in Miguel Syjuco’s ambitious new novel about the Philippines.
Apr 30, 2010 · In the shifting terrain of this remarkably ambitious and daring first novel, Miguel Syjuco explores fatherhood, regret, revolution, and the mysteries of lives lived and abandoned.
Ilustrado. Miguel Syjuco. Picador, 2010 - Fiction - 308 pages. It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River - taken...
Jan 1, 2013 · Ilustrado opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His young acolyte, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author’s suspicious death and the strange...
Illustrado begins with the death of the mentor of a Filipino expatriate Miguel Syjuco named Crispin Salvador. In the novel, Syjuco returns to the Philippines to write a biography about him.
