Nick Joaquin:
Poet, fictitious, essayist, biographer, playwright, and National Artist, decided to quit after three years of secondary education at the Mapa High School. Classroom work simply bored him. He thought his teachers didn't know enough. He discovered that he could learn more by reading books on his own, and his father's library had many of the books he cared to read. He read all the fiction he could lay his hands on, plus the lives of saints, medieval and ancient history, the poems of Walter de la Mare and Ruben Dario. He knew his Bible from Genesis to Revelations. Of him actress-professor Sarah K. Joaquin once wrote: "Nick is so modest, so humble, so unassuming . . .his chief fault is his rabid and insane love for books. He likes long walks and worn out shoes. Before Intramuros was burned down, he used to make the rounds of the churches when he did not have anything to do or any place to go. Except when his work interferes, he receives daily communion." He doesn't like fish, sports, and dressing up. He is a bookworm with a gift of total recall.He was born "at about 6:00 a.m." in Paco, Manila, on 04 May 1917. The moment he emerged from his mother's womb, the baby Nicomedes--or Onching, to his kin--made a "big howling noise" to announce his arrival. That noise still characterizes his arrival at literary soirees. He started writing short stories, poems, and essays in 1934. Many of them were published in Manila magazines, and a few found their way into foreign journals. His essay La Naval de Manila (1943) won in a contest sponsored by the Dominicans whose university, the UST, awarded him an A.A. (Associate in Arts) certificate on the strength of his literary talents. The Dominicans also offered him a two-year scholarship to the Albert College in Hong Kong, and he accepted. Unable to follow the rigid rules imposed upon those studying for the priesthood, however, he left the seminary in 1950.
He is included in Heart of the Island (1947) and Philippine Poetry Annual: 1947 - 1949 (1950), both edited by Manuel A. Viray.
The following are Joaquin's published books:
"Nick Joaquin is, in my opinion," wrote Jose Garcia Villa, "the only Filipino writer with a real imagination--that imagination of power and depth and great metaphysical seeing--and which knows how to express itself in great language, who writes poetry, and who reveals behind his writings a genuine first-rate mind."
"Joaquin has proven the truism," said Alejandro R. Roces, "that to understand the present, you have to first know the past. And by presenting the present as a continuation of the future, he has traced the roots of our rotting society to our moral confusion. He is doing for the Philippines what Faulkner has done for the [U.S.] South."
"Nick Joaquin," said Manuel A. Viray, "a gifted stylist, has used his sensitive style and his exciting evocations in portraying the peculiar evil, social and moral, we see around us and in proving that passion as well as reason can never be quenched."
After the death of his father, Joaquin went to live with his brother Enrique ("Ike"). With the encouragement of his sister-in-law, Sarah, he submitted a story to the Herald Mid-Week Magazine and it was published. He soon sent out more stories to other magazines. In 1949 "Guardia de Honor" was declared the best story of the year in the Philipines Free Press.
He was designated manager of his sister-in-law Sarah's dramatic organization after WWII. Later he joined the Philippines Free Press as proofreader and subsequently became a rewrite man. He wrote feature articles he bylined as "Quijano de Manila." They were a great hit. Soon they appeared regularly and Quijano de Manila became one of the most famous journalists in the country.
Because of labor problems in the Free Press, he left and edited Asia-Philippine Leader. He had been with the Free Press for 27 years (1950-77). Nicomedes "Onching" M. Joaquin, today just "Nick," who came into the world howling, lives quietly in San Juan del Monte writing, among others, kiddie books. And "he survives on sheer genius," remarks one admirer of his.
The story is all about the mysterious death of a girl Named Nenita Coogan. The American girl who had been hated by many because of being so talkative and she often tell story or secrets of a person to the world, others call her a compulsive liar. (Why was her death considered mysterious?) It is because she had been found dead in a cave which had been closed to the public and guarded by the mayor's guards so that nobody could enter into that cave she's bare naked when found and so fragrant which caught the of attention of Mr. Pocholo Gatmaitan that's why her body was found. Mr. Jack Henson, former husband of Alfreda was told by the latter to investigate about the case of her daughter because she cannot get easily encourage that her daughter only died in cardiac arrest and not been murdered nor raped. So, Jack, from Davao planned to Manila and there Nenitas ghost haunted him, as if for him, Nenita wanted to say something. He investigate it all his might, he went to Nenita's whereabouts and interviewed her friends and even ask the oldest person in Barrio Bato because in his mind, there's a secret passage in the cave where Nenita has been found, that might be the passage where Nenita entered to be able to enter the cave, non might been used by the murderer. After all the information's he got and the persons he met, he found out the killer and how he planned to do the killing but all that he guessed where just conclusions and some of it were true and definitely true yet at the end when he went to the Hermana, the priestess of the cult there. He found the answers though mystically told or unbelievable but Hermana has point and proved it to him. According to Hermana, Pocholo is whom Jack found out to be the murderer because of the plan Pocholo admit to him,but the ghost of Nenita herself talked to the Hermana saying that she died with love which she found out inside the cave where in the goddesses of the cave gave her, she has been awake when Pocholo carried her in the cave and she found the cave bright and fragrant and the goddess spoke to her that if she wanted to stay she could stay forever in the cave with the goddess or she could also went out to the world where she always run away and hurt by the people around her and Nenita just decided to stay, the fragrance of Nenitas body is not because of the car full of flowers where Nenita has laid inside Pocholo's car compartment because he fragrance wont last overnight, the fragrance was from the goddess of the cave Jack was puzzled because Pocholo admitted that he staged Nenitas apparition, he is the one who paid Yvette in order to act as Nenita and Hermana told Jack that Yvette was miles and miles away when Jack saw Nenits ghost, it means that Yvette didn't do the instruction of Pocholo, the ghost is Nenita herself and the goddesses planed it because of reason. Why was Pocholo wanted to kill Nenita? Because Nenita found out the secrets of Pocholo and then he just tried to stop her but actually Pocholo only slapped Nenita because she was hysterical that time, maybe because she has gone in pot orgy and very exhausted that time, then, Nenita fe fell from a deep sleep and didn't wake up anymore, even when she was carried inside the cave.
He is included in Heart of the Island (1947) and Philippine Poetry Annual: 1947 - 1949 (1950), both edited by Manuel A. Viray.
The following are Joaquin's published books:
- Prose and Poems (1952) The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) Selected Stories (1962) La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964) The Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966) Tropical Gothic (1972) The Complete Poems and Plays of Jose Rizal (1976) Reportage on Crime (1977) Reportage on Lovers (1977) Nora Aunor and Other Profiles (1977) Ronnie Poe and Other Silhouettes (1977) Amalia Fuentes and Other Etchings (1977) Gloria Diaz and Other Delineations (1977) Doveglion and Other Cameos (1977) A Question of Heroes (1977) Stories for Groovy Kids (1979) Almanac for Manileños (1979) Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1980) Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980) Reportage on the Marcoses (1979, 1981)
"Nick Joaquin is, in my opinion," wrote Jose Garcia Villa, "the only Filipino writer with a real imagination--that imagination of power and depth and great metaphysical seeing--and which knows how to express itself in great language, who writes poetry, and who reveals behind his writings a genuine first-rate mind."
"Joaquin has proven the truism," said Alejandro R. Roces, "that to understand the present, you have to first know the past. And by presenting the present as a continuation of the future, he has traced the roots of our rotting society to our moral confusion. He is doing for the Philippines what Faulkner has done for the [U.S.] South."
"Nick Joaquin," said Manuel A. Viray, "a gifted stylist, has used his sensitive style and his exciting evocations in portraying the peculiar evil, social and moral, we see around us and in proving that passion as well as reason can never be quenched."
After the death of his father, Joaquin went to live with his brother Enrique ("Ike"). With the encouragement of his sister-in-law, Sarah, he submitted a story to the Herald Mid-Week Magazine and it was published. He soon sent out more stories to other magazines. In 1949 "Guardia de Honor" was declared the best story of the year in the Philipines Free Press.
He was designated manager of his sister-in-law Sarah's dramatic organization after WWII. Later he joined the Philippines Free Press as proofreader and subsequently became a rewrite man. He wrote feature articles he bylined as "Quijano de Manila." They were a great hit. Soon they appeared regularly and Quijano de Manila became one of the most famous journalists in the country.
Because of labor problems in the Free Press, he left and edited Asia-Philippine Leader. He had been with the Free Press for 27 years (1950-77). Nicomedes "Onching" M. Joaquin, today just "Nick," who came into the world howling, lives quietly in San Juan del Monte writing, among others, kiddie books. And "he survives on sheer genius," remarks one admirer of his.
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Cave and Shadows
by: Nick Joaquin
The story is all about the mysterious death of a girl Named Nenita Coogan. The American girl who had been hated by many because of being so talkative and she often tell story or secrets of a person to the world, others call her a compulsive liar. (Why was her death considered mysterious?) It is because she had been found dead in a cave which had been closed to the public and guarded by the mayor's guards so that nobody could enter into that cave she's bare naked when found and so fragrant which caught the of attention of Mr. Pocholo Gatmaitan that's why her body was found. Mr. Jack Henson, former husband of Alfreda was told by the latter to investigate about the case of her daughter because she cannot get easily encourage that her daughter only died in cardiac arrest and not been murdered nor raped. So, Jack, from Davao planned to Manila and there Nenitas ghost haunted him, as if for him, Nenita wanted to say something. He investigate it all his might, he went to Nenita's whereabouts and interviewed her friends and even ask the oldest person in Barrio Bato because in his mind, there's a secret passage in the cave where Nenita has been found, that might be the passage where Nenita entered to be able to enter the cave, non might been used by the murderer. After all the information's he got and the persons he met, he found out the killer and how he planned to do the killing but all that he guessed where just conclusions and some of it were true and definitely true yet at the end when he went to the Hermana, the priestess of the cult there. He found the answers though mystically told or unbelievable but Hermana has point and proved it to him. According to Hermana, Pocholo is whom Jack found out to be the murderer because of the plan Pocholo admit to him,but the ghost of Nenita herself talked to the Hermana saying that she died with love which she found out inside the cave where in the goddesses of the cave gave her, she has been awake when Pocholo carried her in the cave and she found the cave bright and fragrant and the goddess spoke to her that if she wanted to stay she could stay forever in the cave with the goddess or she could also went out to the world where she always run away and hurt by the people around her and Nenita just decided to stay, the fragrance of Nenitas body is not because of the car full of flowers where Nenita has laid inside Pocholo's car compartment because he fragrance wont last overnight, the fragrance was from the goddess of the cave Jack was puzzled because Pocholo admitted that he staged Nenitas apparition, he is the one who paid Yvette in order to act as Nenita and Hermana told Jack that Yvette was miles and miles away when Jack saw Nenits ghost, it means that Yvette didn't do the instruction of Pocholo, the ghost is Nenita herself and the goddesses planed it because of reason. Why was Pocholo wanted to kill Nenita? Because Nenita found out the secrets of Pocholo and then he just tried to stop her but actually Pocholo only slapped Nenita because she was hysterical that time, maybe because she has gone in pot orgy and very exhausted that time, then, Nenita fe fell from a deep sleep and didn't wake up anymore, even when she was carried inside the cave.
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