Snapshots of a Literary Friendship: Francisco Arcellana and Jose Garcia Villa

• Main Author: Chua, Jonathan O
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Arcellana; Villa; literary friendships; Philippine literary history; Comparative Literature; Creative Writing
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/17; https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/apah/article/view/2837
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Accounts of literary friendships provide one with material for literary scholarship. This paper presents “snapshots” of the friendship of Francisco Arcellana (1917–2002) and Jose Garcia Villa (1908– 97). Arcellana and Villa’s friendship bears indelible traces of Philippine literary history at large;...