The Parvenu : a love story / Florentino Dauz.

Florentino Dauz began his career in letters as a poet and political writer. He has written literary and political essays, as well as some fiction. At the age of twenty-one, he published a collection of poems, Caligula. In 1964 he published a second collection of poems. Brodsky and Others. Several poems in this two books have been anthologized abroad. Dauz was for a time a professorial lecturer in political economy in a state college. While engaged in such lectureship, he wrote two short political biographies and a paper on the economy of Europe in the 1960s. Dauz took his B.A. in Contemporary Literature at Far Eastern University and the Lyceum of the Philippines. He has completed academic requirements (minus thesis) for an M.A. in Economics at the Lyceum. He has also taken formal courses in the scholarship of Law and Politics. While in college, he wrote a paper on Peter Drucker and Thorstein Veblen. In 1970 and 1971 Dauz went to Europe and the United States to observe modern art movements and tends in literature. He stayed in London to research on the works of Paul Klee and Andre Breton. He stayed in London to research on Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats, and in Madrid to read some papers by ortega y Gasset. In Paris Dauz did research on the works of Paul Klee and Andre Breton. He stayed in New York and read Emerson in City Library. He has participated in various group art shows in Manila, and recently exhibited at the ABC Galleries. In 1974 he published Essays of a Decade. Two years later he put out two books of poetry: The Beheaded Sun and The Survivor of Warsaw. The Parvenu is his first novel.