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El Filibusterismo (The Subversive) is the second novel by Jose Rizal (1861-1896), national hero of the Philippines. Like its predecessor, the better-known Noli Me Tangere, the Fili was written in Castilian while Rizal was traveling and studying in Europe. It was published in Ghent in 1891 and later translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A nationalist novel by an author who has been called the first Filipino, its nature as a social document of the late-nineteenth-century Philippines is often emphasized. For many years copies of the Fili...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscience--and martyr--for the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has...

Noli Me Tangere is Latin for touch me not. In this modern classic of Filipino literature, Jose Rizal exposes matters . . . so delicate that they cannot be touched by anybody, unfolding an epic history of the Philippines that has made it that country's most influential political novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jose Rizal, national hero of the Philippines, completed Noli Me Tangere in Spanish in 1887 while he was studying in Europe. Rizal continued to write, completing a second novel and many other poems and essays, until he was executed by firing squad in 1896. Since then,...

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Philippinen, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Der junge, idealistische Ibarra kehrt nach sieben Jahren Studium aus Europa in seine Heimat zurück - voller Erneuerungsdrang für sein Land und im Liebesrausch für die schöne María Clara. Doch seine Hoffnungen werden schnell zerschlagen, denn die von ihm so geliebte Gesellschaft ist zerfressen von Korruption, Unterdrückung und religiösem Dogmatismus. Nicht das philippinische Volk hält die Zügel in der Hand, sondern die spanischen Kolonialherren mitsamt ihrem...