Noli Me Tangere (SHAPS Library of Translations) - Hardcover

Rizal, Jose; Lacson-Locsin, Ma. Soledad; Locsin, Raul L.

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9780824819163: Noli Me Tangere (SHAPS Library of Translations)

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ISBN 10: 0824819160 ISBN 13: 9780824819163

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997

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Noli Me Tangere is Latin for "touch me not, " an allusion to the Gospel of St. John where Jesus says to Mary Magdelene: "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father." In this modern classic of Filipino literature, Jose P. Rizal exposes "matters...so delicate that they cannot be touched by anybody, " unfolding an epic history of the Philippines that has made it the most influential political novel in that country in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The popularity of this novel is grounded in its reflection of the turbulent times in which it was written. Its influence on Filipino political thinking, as well as on contemporary fiction, drama, opera, dance, and film, has been and continues to be enormous. The vivid characters and the harsh situations depicted still ring true today.

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"A beautiful new translation... Rizal''s rich, moving novel...[is] perhaps the most important novel in Philippine literature." --Jessica Hagedorn
"A beautiful new translation... Rizal's rich, moving novel...[is] perhaps the most important novel in Philippine literature." --Jessica Hagedorn

About the Author:

Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (19 de junio de 1861, Calamba-30 de diciembre de 1896, Manila), fue patriota, medico y hombre de letras inspirador del nacionalismo de su pais. Rizal era hijo de un prospero propietario de plantaciones azucareras de origen chino. Su madre, Teodora Alonso, fue una de las mujeres mas cultas de su epoca. La formacion de Jose Rizal transcurrio en el Ateneo de Manila, la Universidad de Santo Tomas de Manila y la de Madrid, donde estudio medicina. Mas tarde estudio en Paris y Heidelberg. Noli me Tangere, su primera novela, fue publicada en 1886, seguida de El Filibusterismo, en 1891. Por entonces edito en Barcelona el periodico La Solidaridad en el que postulo sus tesis politicas Pese a las advertencias de sus amigos, Rizal decidio regresar a su pais en 1892. Alli encabezo un movimiento de cambio no violento de la sociedad que fue llamado La Liga Filipina. Deportado a una isla al sur de Filipinas, fue acusado de sedicion en 1896 y ejecutado en publico en Manila.

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