Jose Rizal: El Filibusterismo, Critical Edition

Jose Rizal: El Filibusterismo, Critical Edition

by Isaac Donoso
Hardbound

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. 
 

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