Buku Noli Me Tángere karya José Rizal mengisahkan kisah Crisóstomo Ibarra, seorang pemuda Filipina berdarah campuran Spanyol yang kembali ke tanah airnya setelah tujuh tahun belajar di Eropa.
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 guid…
El Filibusterismo (The Subversive) is the second novel by José 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 na…
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 guid…
The novel centers on the Noli-El fili duology's main character Crisóstomo Ibarra, now returning for vengeance as "Simoun". The novel's dark theme departs dramatically from the previous novel's hopeful and romantic atmosphere, signifying Ibarra's resort to solving his country's issues through violent means, after his previous attempt in reforming the country's system made no effect and seemed i…
El Filibusterismo (The Rise of Greed) is a sequel to his first novel Noli Me Tangere, set against the backdrop of a mysterious character named Ibarra who continues to move underground, revealing the omnipotence of the Spanish colonizers aided by the fatwas of the clergy. Perusing page after page of this masterful literary work is like looking in a clear mirror. Our smudged face will become clea…