The textual lines of the novel have been consecutively numbered to serve as a tool for scholars in establishing a definitive concordance. The original Spanish text has been printed in parallel with Charles Derbyshire’s classic English translation. With this volume, Rizal’s textual versions are recovered through a modern philological parsing, which spans 3,065 explanatory notes, thus unlocking the novel’s many enigmas for a new generation of readers. This bilingual quincentennial edition is a faithful reproduction of the edición príncipe published in Ghent in 1891 and includes a comparative annotation of Rizal’s corrections, emendations as well as deletions from the original manuscript and the final printed text, making this the first-ever critical edition. In the first narrative, the author exposed the ills of a decaying Filipino society enfeebled by colonialism, while in this sequel Rizal tantalizingly emplots two divergent paths of the social disease’s inevitable and natural progression-either a slow, debilitating cancerous spread or the body’s sudden collapse into a violent paroxysm of anarchy and terrorism. Above all this looms the figure of Simoun, a powerful and extremely rich jeweller, who is more than ready to put his immeasurable wealth to use.Įl Filibusterismo is the sequel to Noli me Tangere, and cited among the reasons for the execution of the author, who is now regarded national hero of the Philippines.Jose Rizal’s El Filibusterismo serves as the thrilling denouement to his first social novel, Noli me tangere.

And the students of Manila petition the government to be taught in Tagalog instead of Spanish.įollow Basilio, a medical student and his friends as they navigate the difficult climate in Manila, while his fiance struggles with the law in their hometown. In the countryside, a group of outlaws takes things in their own hands – including the money of the rich. However, here and there are pockets of insurrection. The Philippines, still a Spanish colony, are more or less run by the Catholic friars, and with an iron fist. Download cover art Download CD case insert El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed)

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