Jose Rizal: El Filibusterismo, Critical Edition

Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo serves as the thrilling denouement to his first social novel, Noli Me Tangere. In the first narrative, the author exposed the ills of a decaying Filipino society enfeebled by colonialism, while in this sequel Rizal tantalizingly emplots two divergent paths of the social disease's inevitable and natural progression-either a slow, debilitating cancerous spread of the body's sudden collapse into a violent paroxysm of anarchy and terrorism. 

This bilingual quincentennial edition is a faithful reproduction of the 'edicion principe' published in Ghent in 1891 and includes a comparative annotation of Rizal's corrections, emendations as well as deletions from the original manuscript and the final printed text, making this the first-ever critical edition. With this volume, Rizal's textual versions are recovered through a modern philological parsing, which spans 3,065 explanatory notes, this unlocking the novel's many enigmas for a new generation of readers.