Sherds:The education of an aesthete

The problem of young fiction writers, National Artist for Literature Frankie Sionil Jose once said, is that they no longer tell stories for they are caught up with devices that impede the storytelling.

I myself recall the fiction in English produced during the 60s and carried over to the present. The stories take effort to read and in one instance after a few pages, I put the novel down to reflect on what I had just read.