Noli Me Tangere: A NovelJose Rizal, Raul L. Locsin 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. |
Contents
A Gathering | 1 |
Crisostomo Ibarra 12 | 19 |
A Heretic and a Subversive | 21 |
A Star in the Dark Night | 28 |
Capitan Tiago | 31 |
Idyll in an Azotea | 41 |
Memories | 49 |
Some Country Matters | 54 |
The Luncheon | 227 |
The Comments | 236 |
The First Cloud | 242 |
His Excellency | 246 |
The Procession | 254 |
Doña Consolacion | 259 |
Right and Might | 269 |
Two Visitors | 277 |
The Town | 59 |
Divide and Rule | 62 |
All Saints Day | 67 |
A Gathering Storm | 71 |
Tasio | 75 |
The Altar Boys | 83 |
Sisa | 87 |
Basilio | 92 |
Souls in Anguish | 97 |
The Travails of a Schoolmaster | 103 |
The Meeting in the Townhall | 112 |
A Mothers Story | 123 |
Lights and Shadow | 131 |
The Fishing Excursion | 135 |
In the Woods | 147 |
Elías and Salomé | 158 |
In the Philosophers Home | 164 |
The Eve of the Fiesta | 175 |
At Nightfall | 182 |
Letters | 189 |
The Morning | 196 |
In the Church | 201 |
The Sermon | 205 |
The Hoist | 214 |
Free Thinker | 223 |
The Espadaña Couple | 280 |
Plans | 291 |
An Examination of Conscience | 294 |
The Fugitives | 300 |
The Cockpit | 306 |
Two Ladies | 315 |
The Enigma | 320 |
The Voice of the Persecuted | 323 |
The Family of Elías | 332 |
Changes | 339 |
The Card of the Dead and the Shadows | 343 |
A Good Day Is Foretold by the Morning | 348 |
Discovery | 353 |
The Catastrophe | 359 |
Fact and Fancy | 365 |
Woe to the Vanquished | 372 |
The Culprit | 380 |
Patriotism and SelfInterest | 384 |
Wedding Plans for Maria Clara | 393 |
Pursuit in the Lake | 403 |
Padre Damaso Explains | 410 |
Christmas Eve | 414 |
Epilogue | 422 |
Notes | 427 |