Noli Me Tangere

[Miguk]

I am attending a premier of an opera tonight at the Kennedy Center based on Rizal's classic tale.  I really hope it will be good.  Really looking forward to it all week!

[sonjack2847]

I have read the book and found it very good. Actually I found it difficult to put the book down. He did write another one that I am trying to get hold of.

[Methersgate]

I have read the book and found it very good. Actually I found it difficult to put the book down. He did write another one that I am trying to get hold of.

 

 

He was a genuinely good writer,and he hits his targets good and square. 

As I think most of us know, his wife was Irish:

If only today's Filipinos were half the man he was, their country would be running the planet....

 

Here is the other book, El Filibusterismo, online:

 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10676/10676-h/10676-h.htm

Edited August 10, 2014 by Methersgate

[sonjack2847]

 

I have read the book and found it very good. Actually I found it difficult to put the book down. He did write another one that I am trying to get hold of.

 

 

He was a genuinely good writer,and he hits his targets good and square. 

As I think most of us know, his wife was Irish:

If only today's Filipinos were half the man he was, their country would be running the planet....

 

Here is the other book, El Filibusterismo, online:

 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10676/10676-h/10676-h.htm

 

Thanks for that i will download when the internet speeds up a little in the evening.

[Miguk]

It was very good (albeit they certainly saved money on the scenery/set design)!  That story is as dramatic and tragic as any Carmen or Tosca.  The section where Sisa lost her mind was terribly poignant and beautifully sung. And Padre Damaso deserves to be strung up by his sack! 

It really deserves to be a much better known work outside of the Philippines.  Concur completely - they need about a million more Rizals in the Philippines - if nothing more that to set a good example!

[Guy F.]

Hey Methersgate, it's good to know there is another Rizal fan among us.

 

Other works by Rizal are also available at Gutenberg.org.

 

The consensus among Filipinos is that Noli Me Tangere is what got Rizal executed. Filibusterismos, on the whole, is more subversive but the title Noli Me Tangere, which is Latin for "don't touch me", was more threatening to the priests. One gets the feeling that more was going on with the two young boys at the beginning of the book than Rizal felt would be believable at the time.

[Miguk]

Hey Methersgate, it's good to know there is another Rizal fan among us.

 

Other works by Rizal are also available at Gutenberg.org.

 

The consensus among Filipinos is that Noli Me Tangere is what got Rizal executed. Filibusterismos, on the whole, is more subversive but the title Noli Me Tangere, which is Latin for "don't touch me", was more threatening to the priests. One gets the feeling that more was going on with the two young boys at the beginning of the book than Rizal felt would be believable at the time.

It is completely believable now unfortunately.  Theocracies are as corrupt and and abusive as any other authoritarian system....more so because they hide behind the cloak of religious piety and infallibility.  The mere fact that Rizal could have been executed over a book is proof enough that civil society can never rest in its job of domesticating religion.