{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":48464,"auction_id":97,"set_id":128,"lot_number":"192","artist":"Adelina Gurrea","title":"a.) Cuentos de Juana (Narraciones malayas de las\nislas Filipinas) \nb.) Filipinas: Auto Histórico Satírico \nc.) Filipinas, heredera privilegiada","starting_price":6000,"signed_dated":"a) Madrid: Imprenta de Prensa Española, 1943\nb) Valladolid: Imprenta Agustina, 1954\nc) Madrid: Imprenta de Prensa Española, 1943","medium":null,"size":"a) size: 6 1/2\" x 4 3/4\" (17 cm x 12 cm)\ndept h:3/4\" (2 cm)\nb) size: 6 3/4\" x 4 3/4\" (17 cm x 12 cm)\nc) size: Madrid: Publicaciones del Círculo Filipino, 1954","property":null,"coa":"CONDITION REPORT\nSOFTBOUND\nFAIR","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Adelina Gurrea was born on a family farm. Her family had Spanish roots and owned sugarcane plantations in Negros Occidental. She grew up speaking Bisaya and Spanish, and went to Manila to study at St. Scholastica's College, where she learned English. She finished with a degree in Library Science and Arts and Letters, and got her first literary prize at age 15. She then devoted herself to literature and the language she chose to write in was Spanish. For some time, she managed the women's section of the Saturday issues of La Vanguardia, one of the most important newspapers at the time. In 1920, she established herself in Spain, although she traveled frequently to the archipelago she always considered her homeland. This is a very important fact; despite the fact she developed most of her literary career in Spain, she always considered herself as an \"unrooted individual,\" thinking of the Philippines as her motherland. The very proof of this is the fact most of her writings revolve around one single topic: the Philippines. She kept her Philippine nationality until her death. Her main literary work is Cuentos de Juana. Narraciones malayas de las Islas Filipinas [Juana's tales. Malay narrations of the Philippine Islands]. It was first published in 1943 in Madrid, right after the imposition of Franco's dictatorship in Spain. In 1951, the book was awarded an international literary prize by the Unión Latina club of journalists and writers. In consequence, the second edition of the book saw light in 1955. It must be mentioned that the book carried the drawings of another Filipino from Cagayan who established himself, like Adelina Gurrea, in Spain: Luis Lasa. In 1955 a book of poems, A lo largo del camino (Along the way, 1954) won for Gurrea the Zobel prize for Philippine Literature in Spanish. In 1967, a few years before she passed away, she read a speech on José Rizal. Cuentos de Juana deals with the intervention of supernatural entities — tamao, asuang, camá-camá — gathered from Visayan folklore: it is not only fiction, but also an attempt to capture and properly portray the culture and the spirit of the people. Gurrea uses those fantastic beings to describe the thoughts and the feelings of the Filipino people. Although the tales somehow idealize the exuberant beauty of the Philippine nature, it is not a mere exercise of idealization; there is a fair amount of social criticism in those fictions, especially dealing with the hierarchies, the injustices and the role of women in society. In fact, most short stories come to a fatal end. Adelina Gurrea is probably one of the best narrators of 20th century Philippines, only unknown for fact that her works have not been translated yet to English or any Filipino language. Her collection of short stories have been published twice in the last years in Spain. All her published books listed here are first editions and extremely rare to find.","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Adelina Gurrea</strong><br /><em>a.) Cuentos de Juana (Narraciones malayas de las </em><br /><em>islas Filipinas)</em> <br />Madrid: Imprenta de Prensa Espa&ntilde;ola, 1943<br />size: 6 1/2\" x 4 3/4\" (17 cm x 12 cm)<br />depth: 3/4\" (2 cm)<br /><br /><em>b.) Filipinas: Auto Hist&oacute;rico Sat&iacute;rico </em><br /><em>Valladolid: Imprenta Agustina, 1954</em><br />size: 6 3/4\" x 4 3/4\" (17 cm x 12 cm)<br /><br /><em>c.) 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