Noli Me Tangere is Latin for "touch me not." In this modern classic of Filipino literature, José 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. José 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, Noli Me Tangere has appeared in French, Chinese, German and Philippine languages. Two other English translations have made Noli Me Tangere accessible, but Lacson-Locsin’s new translation offered here is the first to work from facsimile editions of the manuscripts and to restore significant sections of the original text. The result is the most authoritative and faithful English translation to date.

Noli Me Tangere: A Novel (SHAPS Library of Translations)

Literature & Fiction

Jose P. Rizal

Contemporary

University of Hawaii Press

Philippine Children's Book. One of Jose Rizal's popular tale of the monkey and the turtle after taking their halves of a banana tree. The monkey took the upper half and the turtle, the lower half. What follows is a classic fable of cunning and greed that escalates into a battle of wits and, ultimately, a fight for survival.

The Monkey and the Turtle ,A Philippine Folk Tale

Tahanan Books

Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo: Subversion: A Sequel to Noli Me Tangere of Jose Rizal. And surely no writer paid a higher penalty for self-expression; Rizal was executed by a firing squad mainly because of these two books. 
 Filipinos, inspired by Rizal, made the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896, established its first democratic republic, which survived until 1901, and in 1946, exactly half a century after Rizal's execution, became the first Asians to win independence from Western colonialism. It is not mere patriotic pride that leads Filipinos to acclaim the author of the Noli and the Fili as the first Asian Nationalist and as one who in his way moved the world.

Noli Me Tangere

Leon Ma. Guerrero (trans.)

Guerrero Publishing Inc.

El Filibusterismo (Ghent, 1891) (occasionally translated as Subversion or The Reign of Greed) is the second novel of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal (1861 - 1896). He wrote it in Spanish, printed it in Belgium and despite its small print run, the books smuggled back to Manila had an astonishing impact on the society. The satirical descriptions of the abuses of the Spanish colonial regime, led by the Church,upon Filipino citizens contributed to the uprising that took place in 1898. Rizal himself was sentenced to death by firing squad in 1896 for writing this book and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere (Berlin, 1877). Its title is sometimes translated as Touch Me Not although this translator prefers to keep the title as in the original. El Filibusterismo continues and concludes the story established in Noli Me Tangere. The book includes a summary of the plot of the Noli for those who have not read the first book. The main enjoyment of it comes in the depiction of the characters. There has also been academic analysis of this text in relation to other revolutionary movements going on in the world at the time. This is a translation into English by Filipino "Diplomat-Scholar" Leon Ma. Guerrero. The translation was originally published in London in 1965 by Longmans. This edition was published in Manila by the Estate of Leon Ma. Guerrero in 2009. A new edition is available from Anvil Books in 2019. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country's leading newspaper, called this: Easily the most readable translation.

El Filibusterismo

Literary

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Noli Me Tangere: A Novel (SHAPS Library of Translations)

The Monkey and the Turtle ,A Philippine Folk Tale

Noli Me Tangere

El Filibusterismo