Satanas sa Lupa

Satanas sa Lupa
AuthorCelso Al. Carunungan
LanguageTagalog
GenreNovel
Publication date
1970
Publication placePhilippines
Media typePrint

Satanas sa Lupa (“Satan on Earth”), subtitled “nobelang pangkasalukuyan”[1] (“Present-day Novel”), is a 1970[2] Tagalog-language novel by Filipino author and scriptwriter Celso Al. Carunungan,[3] one of the “titans of Philippine literature”.[4] The novel criticizes the Philippine government and society during the early part of the 1970s, a reason why the author had been included among the group known as "Class 1081", Filipinos imprisoned when Martial Law was declared by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972.

Apart from being one of the political novels in the Philippines from 1967 to 1972 that "represented a clamor for change in society" (Filipino: kinatawan ng paghingi ng pagbabago sa lipunan), Satanas sa Lupa was one of the novels in the Philippines that incorporated romanticism in its plot using the "love triangle" (Filipino: tatsulukan ng pag-ibig) genre, a genre that began in the Philippines in 1906 through another novel entitled Juan Masili by another Filipino author named Patricio Mariano. The love triangle in Satanas sa Lupa is between the characters Benigno Talavera, Conrado, and Chona.[5]

  1. ^ Satanas sa Lupa: nobelang pangkasalukuyan, worldcat.org
  2. ^ Samar, Edgar Calabia. Unang Siglo ng Nobela sa Filipinas (2009) ni Virgilio S. Almario, Atisan Novels
  3. ^ Panitikan sa Pilipinas (Literature in the Philippines) (Tagalog), books.google.com
  4. ^ “Celso Al. Carunungan”, History, The Varsitarian, The Official Student Publication of the University of Santo Tomas, Vol. LXXXI, No. 11, February 18, 2010, Manila, Philippines: “The titans of Philippine literature learned writing in the Varsitarian: (…) Celso Al Carunungan (…)”, varsitarian.net
  5. ^ Gamboa-Alcantara, Ruby. ""Romantisismo, Estilong Pilipino" Itinatak sa Nobelang Tagalog". Retrieved June 5, 2011.