Noli me tangere
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Noli me tangere

The Social Cancer | With footnotes and an accurate introduction

  1. 322 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Noli me tangere

The Social Cancer | With footnotes and an accurate introduction

About this book

Noli Me Tangere – "Touch me not" – is the novel that ignited a revolution. Written in Spanish while José Rizal was abroad in the 1880s, this incendiary work paints a searing portrait of the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule. Through the story of Crisóstomo Ibarra, a brilliant and idealistic young Filipino who returns home from European study only to find his country in the grip of clerical corruption, civil injustice, and social hypocrisy, Rizal exposes the festering wounds of a nation in chains. Yet this is no mere political pamphlet. It is a novel of tangled love, family honour, betrayal, and sacrifice, peopled with unforgettable characters – the saintly yet tragic María Clara, the sinister friar Padre Dámaso, the cynical philosopher Tasio, and the sly opportunist Doña Victorina. With wit, anger, and profound sorrow, Rizal holds up a mirror to his compatriots and his oppressors alike, challenging both to see the truth of their condition. More than a century after its first publication, Noli Me Tangere remains the foundational text of Filipino literature – a work that does not simply describe colonial suffering, but demands that its readers think, question, and act. In its pages, Rizal forged the moral and intellectual vocabulary of a people yearning for dignity, and in doing so, he became the architect of a nascent Filipino national consciousness – a consciousness that would, within a decade, rise in arms and, within a generation, claim its place among the free nations of the world. This edition is distinguished by a complete scholarly apparatus: a comprehensive introduction by the translator that situates the novel in its historical, political, and literary contexts, clarifying Rizal's allusions, his debts to European literature, and his coded criticisms of church and state; and a full set of explanatory notes that illuminate the text's numerous references to Tagalog customs, Spanish colonial law, Catholic theology, and nineteenth-century Philippine society – making this complex masterpiece accessible to the modern reader while preserving its fierce, subversive spirit.

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Publisher
Cactus
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9791256799077
Subtopic
Asian Literature

Table of contents

  1. Translator’s Introduction
  2. NOLI ME TANGERE
  3. Author’s Dedication
  4. Chapter I
  5. Chapter II
  6. Chapter III
  7. Chapter IV
  8. Chapter V
  9. Chapter VI
  10. Chapter VIII
  11. Chapter VIII
  12. Chapter IX
  13. Chapter X
  14. Chapter XI
  15. Chapter XII
  16. Chapter XIII
  17. Chapter XIV
  18. Chapter XV
  19. Chapter XVI
  20. Chapter XVII
  21. Chapter XVIII
  22. Chapter XIX
  23. Chapter XX
  24. Chapter XXI
  25. Chapter XXII
  26. Chapter XXIII
  27. Chapter XXIV
  28. Chapter XXV
  29. Chapter XXVI
  30. Chapter XXVII
  31. Chapter XXVIII
  32. Chapter XXIX
  33. Chapter XXX
  34. Chapter XXXI
  35. Chapter XXXII
  36. Chapter XXXIII
  37. Chapter XXXIV
  38. Chapter XXXV
  39. Chapter XXXVI
  40. Chapter XXXVII
  41. Chapter XXXVIII
  42. Chapter XXXIX
  43. Chapter XL
  44. Chapter XLI
  45. Chapter XLII
  46. Chapter XLIII
  47. Chapter XLIV
  48. Chapter XLV
  49. Chapter XLVI
  50. Chapter XLVII
  51. Chapter XLVIII
  52. Chapter XLIX
  53. Chapter L
  54. Chapter LI
  55. Chapter LII
  56. Chapter LIII
  57. Chapter LIV
  58. Chapter LV
  59. Chapter LVI
  60. Chapter LVII
  61. Chapter LVIII
  62. Chapter LIX
  63. Chapter LX
  64. Chapter LXI
  65. Chapter LXII
  66. Chapter LXIII
  67. Epilogue
  68. Glossary

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