Noli Me Tangere: (Touch Me Not) (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Rizal, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039695 ISBN 13: 9780143039693

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

In more than a century since its appearance, José 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.

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Review:

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

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039695
• ISBN 13: 9780143039693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464