| Abstrakt: |
Edel Garcellano's Maikling Imbestigasyon ng Isang Mahabang Pangungulila (MINIMP) begins with a conundrum--the task of making a broken eyeglass speak: more of a conceptual rather than a practical challenge, for how can one expect an eyeglass to talk? After this, the novel mentioned the Aleph, the teleology of the One and Many, the structure of the DNA, and before the first page ends, Minerva. The first page alone demonstrates the novel's proclivity to resort to long prose and utilize non-alphabetic symbols like/, [ ], ;, among others. Variously, the novel has been described as "philosophical," "detective" and "reflexive," while also being classified under the science fiction genre. Altering the above modifiers a little, this paper proposes to describe the work as an intentionally intellectual novel, not least because of its generous intertextual references to names and events from history, mythology, philosophy and the history of thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
